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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"benefit of clergy"”.
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Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85
… focus on quantifying medieval crime and profiling criminals. This methodology has often resulted in a failure to consider the intersection between the law and social attitudes. This current investigation is interested in the extent to which legal privileges or social norms shaped criminal …
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Deus ex Machina: Legal Fictions in Private Law
… relied upon by the courts. The main aim of the dissertation is to formulate a test for which fictions should be accepted and which rejected. Subsidiary aims include a better understanding of the fiction as a device and of certain individual fictions, past and present. This research is …