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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Writs"”.
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The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest
… re-examination of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon writs, a group of over 120 vernacular documents that survive predominantly from the later tenth and eleventh centuries, and which were issued by kings alongside a range of non-royal individuals. These short, nimble, epistolary-form texts contained …
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
… right, to be set alongside contemporary wills, writs, diplomas. The approach taken is a close reading of the narratives contained within lawsuit documents in order to understand how these texts fit into the broader body of early English legal documentation. Chapter One introduces the vernacular …
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The transformation of the American legal mind: Habeas corpus, federalism, and constitutionalism, 1787-1870
… of state courts was established by issuing writs of habeas corpus for prisoners confined under the authority of the federal government. But whenever the Union faced an emergency, states' rights doctrine and the principle of state habeas for federal prisoners were challenged. During the Civil …
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Sokeright
… character led to its inclusion in pre-Conquest writs, which were frequently addressed to courts of law. The phrase is very rarely found in charters however, and it was evidently out of place there, not merely because it'was an English phrase when convention demanded that charters be written in …
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Jeremy Gridley Father of the Boston Bar
… of the Sons of Liberty.</p> <p>The case of the writs of Assistance would have immortalized one who with clarity of logic and broadness of vision so valiantly upheld the supremacy of the law. Instead, the name of Jeremy Fridley was all but obliterated by the use the Massachusetts radicals made of …
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The Writ of Certiorari and Its Scope, 1600-1800: For the Orderly Administration of Justice
This thesis employs an internal legal history methodology to examine the writ of certiorari in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using legal manuscripts and parliamentary records, it aims to re-evaluate the conventional answers to four key questions: how did the Court of King’s Bench come …