The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court

by Margaret McGlynn

Overview

Focusing on one text, Prerogativa Regis, this book examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century through surviving lecture notes. It demonstrates the ways in which the law developed from generation to generation; the points of contention within and between generations, and the ways in which the general knowledge of the legal profession was utilized and refined. It also considers whether the lawyers' treatment of this charged topic was affected by political pressures from outside the Inns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521804295
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.82(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The early readings; 2. Expansion and debate: Thomas Frowyk and Robert Constable; 3. Frowyk and Constable on Primer Seisin; 4. Spelman, Yorke and the campaign against uses; 5. The Edwardian readers and beyond; Conclusion; Appendices: Thomas Frowyk's Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3; John Spelman's Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3.

Editorial Reviews

Review of the hardback: '… an informative, detailed and careful history of a complex area of law.' The Cambridge Law Journal

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