Seigneurial Jurisdiction.

Verlag	Duncker & Humblot GmbH
Erscheinungsjahr	2013
Reihe	Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History 21
Seitenanzahl	237 Seiten
ISBN	9783428497560
Format	PDF
Kopierschutz	Wasserzeichen/DRM
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Preis	74,90 EUR

It is the aim of this collection of reports to establish a basis for comparing various seigneurial courts in pre-modern Europe. The contributors are largely medievalists. To come to terms with the subject, a defintion of courts which were seigneurial, given the variety of legal heritages, had to be set up. One of the first observations made was that on the Continent, where central courts were less prominent, there appears to be a more flexible notion of seigneurial jurisdiction. The contributors then look at the variety of jurisdictions in which lords in medieval and early modern Europe governed the legal relations of their vassals. Also the seigneurial jurisdiction is placed within its national context as one variety of courts which co-existed with other forums. Next the authors observe the origin and nature of substantive law which was implemented in the courts. Finally, focus is put on procedure. In England the medieval period witnessed considerable developments in the way in which cases came before the manorial court and how proof of the compainant's claim was ascertained. The reports provide a framework for further study. They demonstrate similarities and differences between seigneurial jurisdictions in England and on the Continent. One significant observation is that seigneurial jurisdictions seemed to have survived longer on the Continent than in England. Moreover, Continental seigneurial courts seemed to have serviced a broader strata of society. Yet, what is perhaps most striking are the similarities in procedure and in the process of custom making which the collected reports uncover.

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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