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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Chancery"”.
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Chancery of India in the United States
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1961.
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Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758
… husbands and others, in the English court of Chancery during the period 1698 to 1758. Contributing to existing debates concerning married women’s use of legal agency during the early modern period, it explores the extent to which married women had independent access to justice, could manage …
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"Corrupt Bargains and Unconscionable Practices": The Expectant Heir in Seventeenth-Century Chancery
The ‘expectant heir’ Chancery suits have been identified in modern case law, and much of the relevant academic literature, as the origin of the modern doctrine of unconscionable dealing. These suits typically saw young heirs seeking relief from improvident bargains entered into while, short of …
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THE INEQUITY OF THE PRESENT MISSISSIPPI WRONGFUL DEATH STATUTE: A PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE
… between Circuit Court wrongful death actions, Chancery Court wrongful death settlements, and who should equitably receive wrongful death settlements. In Mississippi, the Circuit Court serves as the court of law and the Chancery Court serves as the court of equity. The new amended proposed …
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The Question of the 'Standardisation' of Written English in the Fifteenth Century
… the English language, namely, that the English Chancery was the source and the cause of the standardisation of the English language which occurred in the fifteenth century. The thesis considers how the standardisation of the English language is presently described in a number of textbooks. It …
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The equity side of the exchequer: its jurisdiction, administration, procedures, and records
… demonstrates that equity was bigger than the chancery and that others besides the lord high chancellor had a hand in its development . It is true that the court of chancery was the most important court of equity, but the existence of an alternative high court of equity in the exchequer had a …
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Lords of War: Maximilian I of Bavaria and the Institutions of Lordship in the Catholic League Army, 1619-1626
… War. It draws on letters, reports and other chancery documents from the Bavarian State Archive to examine how duke Maximilian I of Bavaria [r 1597-1651] and his officers re-negotiated their respective command privileges within the army so as to better accommodate each other's practices of …
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The reign of Lothar I (795-855), emperor of the Franks, through the charter evidence.
… of the charter evidence reveals Lothar' s chancery and administration, and provides a picture of his court, its personnel and its politics. Lothar' s donations reveal his close links with the Church, especially the monastery of Prum, and the important role played by the women of the royal …
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The foundation, maintenance and management of a free grammar school in South Lancashire, 1520-1842
… gave information from which a bill was filed in Chancery to rectify the maladministration of the Charity. This resulted in a judgement in 1814 which, in 1820, led to a series of rules which were an updating of the foundation's provisions, their most important reform being a revival of the …
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Uses in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
… consideration. Following developments in Chancery practice with regards to the enforcement of uses in the 1460s there was a significant increase in the employment of uses which led to Frowyk CJKB in 1502 declaring that by the 1480s, ‘the greater part of the land of England was in …
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The Free Church of England: otherwise called the Reformed Episcopal Church - c.1845 to c.1927
… of England was registered in the High Court of Chancery, its roots having been in Devon during the 1840s. Largely reacting to the Puseyite sympathies of Bishop Phillpotts of Exeter, "Free" liturgical churches were established in association with the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… <em>The Man of Property</em> and <em>In Chancery,</em>5) separations and restitution of conjugal rights in Anthony Trollope's<em>Phineas Fin </em>n and <em>Phineas Redux,</em> and 6) divorces and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 in Ellen Price Wood's <em>East Lynne,</em> George Moore's …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
In my thesis I discuss a very influential and widely accepted thesis on the resacralisation of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1152 – 1190) and Rainald of Dassel (chancellor 1156 – 1159, archbishop of Cologne 1159 – 1167). I first trace the history of this opinion, showing …