The Legal Framework of English Feudalism: The Maitland Lectures Given in 1972

Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his lord's control; the lord had no discretion, only the power to decide disputes according to external criteria; jurisdiction in that sense was all the lord lost as royal remedies developed; and all the tenant gained was better protection of unaltered rights. It is a picture of procedural changes taking place against an unchanging background, with the feudal structure at the beginning almost as insubstantial as it was to be at the end.

Author: S. F. C. Milsom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521082839

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