Sir Edward Coke and the reformation of the laws : religion, politics and jurisprudence, 1578-1616

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Label

Sir Edward Coke and the reformation of the laws : religion, politics and jurisprudence, 1578-1616

Title remainder

religion, politics and jurisprudence, 1578-1616

Statement of responsibility

David Chan Smith

Title variation

Sir Edward Coke & the Reformation of the Laws

Creator

• Smith, David Chan, 1976-

Author

• Smith, David Chan, 1976-

Subject

• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1625
• Law reform -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Law reform -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634 -- Influence
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Cambridge studies in English legal history

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

KD621.C64

LC item number

S65 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge studies in English legal history