Volume of essays arising from the 12th British Legal History Conference, which was held at Durham Castle on the 19th-22nd July 1995.
Includes bibliographical references.
The political philosophy of the Lord King / Thomas Glyn Watkin -- Linguistic communities in medieval Scots law / Hector L. MacQueen -- London's courts of law in the fifteenth century: the litigants' perspective / Penny Tucker -- Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England / Christopher Harrison -- Juridical folklore in England illustrated by rough music / Martin Ingram -- Civil litigation in the High Court of Admiralty, 1585-95 / Elizabeth M.P. Wells -- The influence of revenue considerations upon the remedial practice of chancery in trust cases, 1536-1660 / N.G. Jones -- Common law and statutory imitations of equitable relief under the later Stuarts / Mike Macnair -- Testamentary causes in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-96 / Lloyd Bonfield -- Rural credit, market areas and legal institutions in the countryside in England, 1550-1700 / Craig Muldrew -- Recourse to law and the meaning of the great litigation decline, 1650-1750: some clues from the Shrewsbury local courts / W.A. Champion -- Judges and hunters: law and economic conflict in the English countryside, 1800-60 / Joshua Getzler -- 'Perhaps my mother murdered me': child death and the law in Victorian Carmarthenshire / R.W. Ireland -- Judicial Selkirks: the county court judges and the press, 1847-80 / Patrick Polden