Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in...

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Main Author:	Smith, David Chan (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Series:	Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Subjects:	Coke, Edward > 1552-1634 Rechtsreform Hochschulschrift
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent decades leading up to the English civil wars
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2016)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (308 pages)
ISBN:	9781107069299 9781107706798
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107706798