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- English Legal History and Its Sources
- Frontispiece
- English Legal History and Its Sources
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Sir John Baker
- Abbreviations
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Selected Cases
- Part I Law Reports and Reporting
- Part II Courts and Records of Litigation
- 5 Reading Terminology in the Sources for the Early Common Law: Seisin, Simple and Not So Simple
- 6 ‘A Photograph of English Life?’: the Trustworthiness of the Thirteenth-Century Crown Pleas Rolls
- 7 Law, Lawyers, and Legal Records: Litigating and Practising Law in Late Medieval England
- 8 The Fees They Earned: the Incomes of William Staunford and Other Tudor Lawyers
- 9 The Fifteenth-Century Accounts of the Undersheriffs of Middlesex: an Unlikely Source for Legal History
- 10 Local Courts in Eastern Sussex, 1263–1835
- Part III Images of the Law
- Part IV Legal Practice and Legal Learning
- Index
5 - Reading Terminology in the Sources for the Early Common Law: Seisin, Simple and Not So Simple
from Part II - Courts and Records of Litigation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2019
- English Legal History and Its Sources
- Frontispiece
- English Legal History and Its Sources
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Sir John Baker
- Abbreviations
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Selected Cases
- Part I Law Reports and Reporting
- Part II Courts and Records of Litigation
- 5 Reading Terminology in the Sources for the Early Common Law: Seisin, Simple and Not So Simple
- 6 ‘A Photograph of English Life?’: the Trustworthiness of the Thirteenth-Century Crown Pleas Rolls
- 7 Law, Lawyers, and Legal Records: Litigating and Practising Law in Late Medieval England
- 8 The Fees They Earned: the Incomes of William Staunford and Other Tudor Lawyers
- 9 The Fifteenth-Century Accounts of the Undersheriffs of Middlesex: an Unlikely Source for Legal History
- 10 Local Courts in Eastern Sussex, 1263–1835
- Part III Images of the Law
- Part IV Legal Practice and Legal Learning
- Index
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- English Legal History and its SourcesEssays in Honour of Sir John Baker, pp. 79 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019