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The rise and fall of the English ecclesiastical courts, 1500-1860 / R. B. Outhwaite.
LIBRA KD8643 .O98 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Outhwaite, R. B.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in English legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecclesiastical courts--England--History.
- Ecclesiastical courts.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Table of parliamentary statutes xiii
- 1 The ecclesiastical courts: structures and procedures 1
- 2 The business of the courts, 1500-1640 15
- 3 Tithe causes 23
- 4 Wills and testamentary causes 33
- 5 Defamation suits 40
- 6 Marital suits and marriage licences 47
- 7 Office causes 57
- 8 The roots of expansion and critical voices 64
- 9 Charting decline, 1640-1830 78
- 10 Explaining decline 95
- 11 The bills of 1733-1734 104
- 12 Snips and repairs: small steps to reform, 1753-1813 119
- 13 Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815-1832 129
- 14 Reform frustrated 145
- 15 Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521869382
- 9780521869386
- OCLC:
- 71347590
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