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Central Courts in Early Modern Europe and the Americas.

A.M. Godfrey, C.H. van Rhee (Herausgeber)

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543 Seiten

2020
Duncker & Humblot (Verlag)
978-3-428-18033-2 (ISBN)

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The intimate connection between medieval royal government and the administration of justice led to the emergence of a new generation of centralized law courts in early modern Europe, with a superior or even supreme jurisdiction. The contributions to this book seek to examine how such newly created or reformed central judicial bodies became integrated into the wider structures of jurisdiction within states, and how they related to other institutions of central governance such as parliaments or privy councils.

The intimate connection between medieval royal government and the administration of justice led to a new generation of centralized law courts emerging in early modern Europe. Some were newly created institutions, but often they were associated with the evolution of the judicial role of royal councils, or equivalent bodies, which sat outside the ordinary course of justice. Typically these were empowered on behalf of the sovereign to make interventions in legal process on grounds of equity. Legal change of this kind was connected with the development of the state, and reflected the way that enhancement in the exercise of centralized judicial authority could be a powerful force reshaping the administration of justice more generally. The contributions to this book seek to examine how such newly created or reformed central judicial bodies (in Europe but also to some extent in European colonial settlement in the Americas) became integrated into the wider structures of jurisdiction within states, with a superior or even supreme jurisdiction. A particular emphasis is given to exploring how their jurisdiction and authority related to other more political institutions of central governance with an adjudicative role, such as parliaments or privy councils.

A. M. Godfrey is Professor of Legal History at the University of Glasgow. His research and teaching interests are in legal history and the law of obligations. His main research field is the history of central justice, law courts, jurisdiction and dispute settlement in medieval and early modern Scotland. He has published extensively on the origins and development of the Court of Session, on the foundation of the College of Justice in sixteenth-century Scotland, and on early modern litigation and arbitration. With Heikki Pihlajamäki and Markus D. Dubber he has co-edited »The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History« (2018). He is a member of the editorial committee and former editor of »The Journal of Legal History«. Prof. Dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee is Professor of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

A. M. Godfrey and C. H. van Rhee: Introduction

K. Salonen: The Sacra Romana Rota

N. G. Jones: The English Court of Chancery

W. Prest: An ›ordinary court of justice‹? The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, 1689–1760

A. M. Godfrey: The College of Justice, Court of Session and Privy Council in sixteenth century Scotland, 1532–1603

J. D. Ford: Adjudication in the Scottish Parliament, 1532–1707

P. Oestmann: The highest courts of the Holy Roman Empire: Imperial Chamber Court and Imperial Aulic Council

D. Tamm: The King in Council and the Supreme Court in Denmark, 1537–1660

M. Korpiola: The Svea Court of Appeal: A basis for good governance and justice in the early modern Swedish realm, 1614–1800

H. Pihlajamäki: The Appeals Court of Dorpat in the seventeenth century: Establishing Swedish judiciary overseas

A. Wijffels: The supreme judicature in the Habsburg Netherlands

C. H. van Rhee: Supreme judicature in Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland after the Dutch Revolt, 1582–1795

D. Freda: The Sacro Regio Consiglio of Naples, 15th–17th century

I. Czeguhn: The history of the supreme courts in the Iberian peninsula from the 14th century to the 18th century

L. López Valencia: The Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies: the Supreme Court of New Spain

S. Dauchy: The Sovereign Council of New France, 1663–1760

W. H. Bryson: The General Court of Virginia, 1619–1776

List of contributors

»Der vorliegende Band gewährt einen hervorragenden Überblick über rechtshistorische Perspektiven auf die europäische Zentral- und Höchstgerichtsbarkeit und bietet zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte, an denen eine soziologisch interessierte Geschichtswissenschaft künftig ansetzen könnte, umunsere Kenntnis über jene »central courts« zu erweitern, die in der Geschichte Europas eine so bedeutsame Rolle
gespielt haben.« Dr. Tobias Schenk, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Bd. 48, 4/2021

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History ; 34
Zusatzinfo	1 Abb.; 543 S., 1 schw.-w. Abb.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	727 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Jurisdiction • Legal History • Supreme courts
ISBN-10	3-428-18033-X / 342818033X
ISBN-13	978-3-428-18033-2 / 9783428180332
Zustand	Neuware