The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: The making of the constitution

Hannis Taylor

Houghton, Mifflin, 1892

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INTRODUCTION	1

Importance of the Period of Teutonic Conquest and dimness of	2

manorial	4

office of admiral	5

Germs of Jury and Representative Systems imbedded in the local	6

From the accession of Edward I to the enactment of Quia Emp	8

The host embodies all the elements of political organization structure of the primitive	12

Encroachments of the admiralty court upon the common law tribunals stat	13

75	248

the township hundred	252

The Domesday Survey	253

44	254

Scheme of presentment contained in the assize the accused required to go to	256

20	259

The petty jury takes the place of both that result reached by the end of the thir	268

Henrys charter the parent of the Great Charter Henrys marriage with Margaret	273

planted by Rolf in 911	19

The New England town meeting	29

All the elements of municipal life drawn from a Teutonic source the township	35

333333	37

Municipal history of Boston incorporation of Southern towns	43

9	48

259	50

The Federal Convention of May 14 1787	56

The Supreme Court of the United States has no prototype in history the guardian	76

Growth of the English Kingdom	79

48	82

General Character of Teutonic Conquest in Britain Roman civilization	84

London as a distinct shire as a standard for imitation The gild	86

to 88	88

Community witnesses inquest of proof introduced by the Normans	89

CHAPTER II	91

12	94

41	95

sacu and socn	99

all offences except treason and effeminacy could be atoned	108

tonic	112

43	117

Distinctions of Rank	125

The comitatus the hlaford the loafgiver the gesith or companion the thegn	131

A laen generally an estate for life occupancy at the will of the lord	142

CHAPTER IV	149

Mutiny Act the modern ministerial system the problem which the Revolution	155

The Struggle for Supremacy between Northumbria Mercia	162

CHAPTER V	170

45	173

133	179

the Roman and Christian sub	187

260	188

the witan and the local courts all primitive Teutonic	190

Wergild or lifeprice unit in the system of compensation the family or maegth	196

the Roman conquest Cæsar	202

46	205

Early history of the council obscure ennobling effects of menial services rendered	206

Next jurisdiction sacu itself controversy as to the time of the origin of private	208

Feudalism the product of the union of the beneficiary system with that of com	224

322	230

CHAPTER II	232

the king and the witan	237

New ministerial officers the justiciar the chancellor	239

Returns to be made by indenture the formal election in the county court the elec	240

England based her claims upon voyages of the Cabots the great titledeed James	241

The chancellor his common law jurisdiction his equitable jurisdiction his court	243

The financial session of the curia the exchequer the leading subjects of revenue	245

Treaty of Wallingford death of Stephen and accession of Henry of Anjou	274

The growing together of OldEnglish Local Machinery and Norman	280

The Institution of Scutage or Shieldmoney	284

The army composed of both feudal and national elements scutage Excepting	293

47	294

The army composed of both feudal and national elements scutage Excepting	296

the staff consisted of eighteen justices in 1178 reduced to five the kings	302

405	311

The trial jury the product of the union of OldEnglish and Norman elements	323

Same system applied in Williams day to the trial of private cases involving land	331

CHAPTER IV	334

The archdeacons court the bishops court the archbishops court court of	341

shire	342

279	344

mary	348

Every peer supposed to hold a barony directly of the king nature of the baro	353

Estate of a bishop or abbot regarded as a fief title of barones added to that	355

Taxation under Richard I administrations of the justiciars	358

Johns quarrel with the nobles taxation of the baronage and military service	373

Johns quarrel with the nobles taxation of the baronage and military service	376

5382	383

Headship of the shire divided between the ealdorman and sheriff the term ge	385

New France and the struggle for expansion	390

Guarantees for the enforcement of the charter Signing of the charter marks	391

The justiciar ceases to be viceroy and becomes simply the head of a law court	398

450	401

Revival of the monarchy under Edward IV forms of the older constitutional life	406

55	409

Remedy for evasions of statute conquest of Wales 128283	410

Edwards fame as a legislator Growth of the common law Glanvill Bracton	413

Such powers first restrained then expanded by statute scientific perfection of	415

Britain as a country never ceased to exist	421

BOOK III	428

147	431

355	454

149	467

327	481

customs revenue	489

Representatives from the cities and towns first summoned to parliament by Earl	490

Abuses and uncertainties which grew out of the procedure by petition	496

Statute of 11 Henry VI Exemption from legal arrest and distress Thorpes	530

and the church	537

151	546

The council after the accession of Henry IV the commons request in 1404 that	552

Champerty and maintenance heraldry	567

Statement of Richards title blending the elective with the hereditary theories	585

Stuarts bring about the overthrow of the monarchy the English Renaissance	593

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Título	The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: The making of the constitution Volumen1 de The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise ... the Gradual Development of the English Constitutional System, and the Growth Out of that System of the Federal Republic of the United States, Hannis Taylor
Autor	Hannis Taylor
Edición	3
Editor	Houghton, Mifflin, 1892
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	17 Nov. 2011

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