RT Book
T1 The rise and fall of the English ecclesiastical courts, 1500-1860
T2 Cambridge studies in English legal history
A1 Outhwaite, R.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883323656
AB 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.
AB The ecclesiastical courts : structures and procedures -- The business of the courts, 1500-1640 -- Tithe causes -- Wills and testamentary causes -- Defamation suits -- Matrimonial suits and marriage licenses -- Office causes -- The roots of expansion and critical voices -- Charting decline, 1640-1830 -- Explaining decline -- The bills of 1733-1734 -- Snips and repairs : small steps to reform, 1753-1813 -- Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815-1832 -- Reform frustrated -- Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860
OP 195
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN KD8643
SN 978-0-511-58580-7
K1 Ecclesiastical Courts : England : History.
K1 Ecclesiastical Courts : England : History
K1 Ecclesiastical courts ; England ; History
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511585807