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Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws

Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578-1616

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvDavid Chan Smith,Ontario) Smith, David Chan (Wilfrid Laurier University

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Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent decades leading up to the English civil wars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-17
Mått153 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in English Legal History
Antal sidor310
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107639546

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'Smith has presented a highly influential volume on Edward Coke's jurisprudence up to the time of his dismissal by King James I from the Court of King's Bench. His knowledge of Coke's writings and jurisprudence, based on his use of both manuscript and published primary sources, will make this work a definitive study of Coke's early life. This book is recommended for all collections of English legal history.' Joel Fishman, Law Library Journal