Table of Contents | 6 |
Lloyd Bonfield | 8 |
Introduction | 8 |
The Continent | 12 |
Jean-François Poudret: La composition des cours de justice dans les pays romands et son influence sur la formation de la coutume (1250-1500) | 42 |
I. Composition des cours de justice | 44 |
1. Genève | 44 |
2. Lausanne | 45 |
3. Pays de Vaud | 48 |
4. Chablais | 55 |
5. Valais épiscopal | 57 |
6. Neuchâtel et Jura | 62 |
7. Fribourg et Morat | 65 |
II. Le recrutement des coutumiers | 68 |
III. Formation et mentalité | 72 |
Abréviations | 75 |
Jean Coudert: Les justices seigneuriales en Lorraine avant 1600 | 14 |
I. | 16 |
II. | 28 |
Theodor Bühler: Seignorial Jurisdictions in the territories of the diocese of Basle according to sources of the 13th to the 15th centuries | 78 |
I. Generalities | 78 |
1. The diocese of Basle | 78 |
2. The seignorie | 78 |
3. The manor (Dinghof) as center of the seignorie | 79 |
II. The sources | 80 |
III. The seignorial jurisdictions in Basle and its surroundings | 81 |
1. The cathedral of Basle | 82 |
2. The abbey of St. Alban | 84 |
3. The monastery of Einsiedeln | 84 |
4. The monastery of St. Blasien | 84 |
5. The provosty and the canonical convent of Moutier-Grandval | 85 |
6. The provosty and canonical convent of Saint Ursanne | 85 |
7. The monastery of Bellelay | 86 |
8. The monastery of Lucelle | 86 |
9. The secular seignories | 86 |
IV. The different categories of tenants | 88 |
V. The jurisdiction and its limits | 89 |
1. Personnel | 89 |
2. Demarcation between the lower justice and the criminal justice | 90 |
3. Jurisdictions | 91 |
4. Demarcation of other holders of jurisdictional rights | 92 |
VI. The procedure | 93 |
1. Place of the pleads | 93 |
2. Time | 94 |
3. Summons | 94 |
4. The chairman | 95 |
5. The members of the jury | 95 |
6. The ritual of the opening | 95 |
7. The pleadings before the court | 96 |
8. The sentences and the exhibits | 97 |
VII. The appeal | 97 |
VIII. Other jurisdictions in Basle and around Basle | 98 |
1. The city-court | 98 |
2. The building court | 99 |
3. The "Schultheissen"-court of Little-Basle | 99 |
4. The criminal justice in the city of Basle | 99 |
5. The Official of the bishop of Basle | 100 |
IX. Comparision with the procedure of seignorial courts in other countries of Switzerland | 101 |
Abbreviations and abbreviated quoted Literature | 102 |
Glossary | 103 |
Francesco Panero: La giurisdizione signorile sui rustici della „Langobardia" nei secoli X–XII | 104 |
I. „Districtio" e „iurisdictio" | 104 |
II. La giurisdizione della „signoria territoriale di banno" | 112 |
III. Giurisdizione, territorialità e residenza dei rustici | 119 |
1. Il principio di territorialità e oneri pubblici nella dipendenza dalla signoria di banno | 119 |
2. Giurisdizione e residenza dei rustici | 122 |
3. Diritti signorili di tipo pubblico e diritti fondiari | 125 |
4. Territorialità e frazionamento dei diritti signorili | 129 |
5. La mobilità dei contadini | 131 |
IV. Osservazioni conclusive | 134 |
Dietmar Willoweit: Gerichtsherrschaft und Schöffenrecht am Mittelrhein im 15. Jahrhundert: Beobachtungen anhand der Urteile des Ingelheimer Oberhofes | 146 |
I. Strukturen des ländlichen Gerichtswesens im Raum des fränkischen Rechts | 146 |
II. Die örtliche Gerichtsbarkeit im Bereich des Ingelheimer Oberhofe | 150 |
III. Fallstudie: Die Stellung des Gerichtsherrn und der Schöffen in den Orten des Ingelheimer Rechts | 154 |
IV. Ausblick | 159 |
Friedrich Ebel: Ursprünge und Entwicklungen adeliger Gerichtsbarkeit (Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit) in Nord- und Ostdeutschland | 162 |
I. Thema | 162 |
II. Die Entstehung der Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit in norddeutschen Landschaften | 164 |
IIII. Das östliche Deutschland | 168 |
IV. Insbesondere die Lokation | 170 |
V. Der Kampf des Staates gegen die Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit | 172 |
VI. Das Ende der Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit | 174 |
England | 176 |
Lloyd Bonfield: The role of seigneurial jurisdiction after the Norman Conquest and the nature of customary law in medieval England | 178 |
Introduction | 178 |
The jurisdictional puzzle | 179 |
The nature of custom | 183 |
Conclusion | 194 |
L. R. Poos: Medieval English manorial courts: Their records and their jurisdiction | 196 |
R. H. Helmholz: Independence and uniformity in England’s manorial courts | 216 |
I. Introduction | 216 |
II. Control from without | 218 |
1. The criminal law | 218 |
2. Personal actions : debt and trespass | 221 |
3. Procedural rules | 223 |
III. Direction from within | 225 |
1. Land transfer and succession | 225 |
2. Pleading and the forms of action | 227 |
3. Defamation | 229 |
IV. Jurisdictional conflicts | 231 |
1. Appellate review of manorial court decisions | 232 |
2. Conflicts with the courts of other lords | 232 |
3. Conflicts with the ecclesiastical courts | 234 |
V. Conclusion | 237 |
List of Authors | 238 |