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The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts 1500-1860

The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts 1500-1860

Name: The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts 1500-1860
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521869386
Price: 1374.49 HKD
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Author: Outhwaite. R. B.
ISBN: 9780521869386

By Outhwaite. R. B.

Cambridge University Press January 2007

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ISBN-13: 9780521869386
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2007
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The first history of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England that covers the period up to the removal of principal subjects inherited from the Middle Ages. Probate, marriage and divorce, tithes, defamation, and disciplinary prosecutions involving the laity are all covered.

All disappeared from the church's courts during the mid-nineteenth century, and were taken over by the royal courts. The book traces the steps and reasons - large and small - by which this occurred.

Contents:: Abbreviations; Table of parliamentary statutes; 1. The ecclesiastical courts: structures and procedures; 2. The business of the courts, 1500–1640; 3. Tithe causes; 4. Wills and testamentary causes; 5. Defamation; 6. Matrimonial litigation and marriage licenses; 7. Office causes; 8. The roots of expansion and critical voices; 9. Charting decline, 1640–1830; 10. Explaining decline; 11. The Bills of 1733–1734; 12. Snips and repairs: small steps to reform, 1753–1813; 13. Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815–1832; 14. Reform frustrated; 15. Reforms thick and fast, 1854–1860.