Maintenance in Medieval England

Legal History

Maintenance in Medieval England

By Jonathan Rose
Cambridge University Press August 2017

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ISBN-13
9781107043985
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated complaint in medieval England.

This book reveals for the first time what actually transpired in the resultant litigation. Extensive study of the primary sources shows that the statutes prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their objectives because legal proceedings were rarely brought against those targeted by the statutes: the great and the powerful.

Illegal maintenance was less extensive than frequently asserted because medieval judges recognized a number of valid justifications for intermeddling in litigation. Further, the book casts doubt on the effectiveness of the statutory regulation of livery.

This is a treasure trove for legal historians, literature scholars, lawyers, and academic libraries.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Social norms relating to the assistance of others
3. Legal responses to the corruption of justice
4. The early litigation 1272-1327
5. Efforts to deal with corruption of justice in the reign of Edward III
6. Criminal and civil litigation during the reign of Edward III
7. Maintenance and medieval literature
8. Changes in the late medieval period
9. The development of the law of maintenance: permissible justifications for meddling
10. The development of the law of maintenance: illegal maintenance
11. Livery
12. Achieving the legislative objectives of the maintenance statutes
13. Conclusion.
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