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The "Coutumes de Beauvaisis" of Philippe de Beaumanoir / Philippe de Beaumanoir.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (792 p.) : 2 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812231052
  • 9781512800029
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.44 344.4 20
LOC classification:
  • KJV264.B433 B4313 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Map -- Prologue -- 1. Judges -- 2. Summonses -- 3. Permissible Delays -- 4. Attorneys -- 5. Advocates -- 6. Complaints -- 7. Answers -- 8. Latecomers -- 9. Inspections -- 10. Superior Jurisdiction -- 11. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction -- 12. Wills -- 13. Dower -- 14. Inherited Real Property -- 15. Custodianship -- 16. Minors -- 17. Tutors -- 18. Illegitimacy -- 19. Consanguinity -- 20. Good-Faith Holders -- 21. Partnerships -- 22. Corporations -- 23. Property -- 24. Customs -- 25. Highways -- 26. Measurements -- 27. Prices -- 28. Horses -- 29. Services -- 30. Offenses -- 31. Larceny -- 32. Novel Disseisin -- 33. Fraud -- 34. Contracts -- 35. Writings -- 36. Safekeeping -- 37. Loans -- 38. Rentals -- 39. Proofs -- 40. Auditors -- 41. Arbitrators -- 42. Liquidated Damages -- 43. Sureties -- 44. Redemption
Summary: F. R. P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth-century civil and criminal trials.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Map -- Prologue -- 1. Judges -- 2. Summonses -- 3. Permissible Delays -- 4. Attorneys -- 5. Advocates -- 6. Complaints -- 7. Answers -- 8. Latecomers -- 9. Inspections -- 10. Superior Jurisdiction -- 11. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction -- 12. Wills -- 13. Dower -- 14. Inherited Real Property -- 15. Custodianship -- 16. Minors -- 17. Tutors -- 18. Illegitimacy -- 19. Consanguinity -- 20. Good-Faith Holders -- 21. Partnerships -- 22. Corporations -- 23. Property -- 24. Customs -- 25. Highways -- 26. Measurements -- 27. Prices -- 28. Horses -- 29. Services -- 30. Offenses -- 31. Larceny -- 32. Novel Disseisin -- 33. Fraud -- 34. Contracts -- 35. Writings -- 36. Safekeeping -- 37. Loans -- 38. Rentals -- 39. Proofs -- 40. Auditors -- 41. Arbitrators -- 42. Liquidated Damages -- 43. Sureties -- 44. Redemption

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F. R. P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth-century civil and criminal trials.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)