Continuity or change in the court of chancery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Journal of British Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 24-57

  Horwitz, Henry ^a   Polden, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84949115973     PISSN: 00219371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/386095     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. see Douglas Hamer, "Dickens: The Old Court of Chancery, " Notes and Queries, n.s., 17 (1970): 347
2. William Holdsworth, History of English Law (1922), 1:423.
3. Donald Veall, The Popular Movement for Law Reform (Oxford, 1970), p. 178
4. W. J. Jones, The Elizabethan Court of Chancery (Oxford, 1967), p. 17
5. Due Process and Slow Process in the Elizabethan Chancery," American Journal of Legal History 6 (1962): 123-50.
6. For a rather different perspective, see Louis Knafla, Law and Politics in Jacobean England (Cambridge, 1977), esp. pp. 155-64
7. D. M. Kerly, An Historical Sketch of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (1890), p. 167.
8. John Sparke, A Seasonable Warning, London Library pamphlet 616, no. 11 (1706), p. 30.
9. Wilfrid Prest, "Law Reform in Eighteenth-Century England, " in The Life of the Law, ed. Peter Birks (1993), p. 123.
10. C. W. Brooks, "Interpersonal Conflict and Social Tension: Civil Litigation in Eng land, 1640-1830," in The First Modern Society, ed. A. L. Beier et al. (Cambridge, 1989), p. 381.
11. See also Barbara Shapiro, "Law Reform in Seventeenth-Century England," American Journal of Legal History 19 (1975): 302-3.
12. Joseph Parkes, A History of the Court of Chancery (1828), remains a fundamental source, not least because of his mining of printed materials.
13. Brooks, "Interpersonal Conflict, " pp. 357-99
14. Jones, Elizabethan Court of Chancery, p. 17.
15. Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole, British Economic Growth 1688-1959, 2d ed. (Cambridge, 1967), table 19, p. 78
16. Philip Hamburger, "The Conveyancing Purposes of the Statute of Frauds, " American Journal of Legal History 27 (1983): 354-83
17. Lord Nottingham's " Manual of Chancery Practice" and "Prolegomena of Chancery and Equity" ed. D. E. C. Yale (Cambridge, 1965), p. 203
18. A. W. B. Simpson, A History of the Common Law of Contract (Oxford, 1975), pp. 121-22.
19. See Amy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England (1993), p. 38.
20. (1:581). And see Joseph Story, Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as administered in England and America, 2d ed., 2 vols. (Boston, 1839), 1:479
21. Hamilton Bryson, The Equity Side of the Exchequer (Cambridge, 1975), pp. 33, 24-27
22. R . M. Ball, " Tobias Eden, Change and Conflict in the Exchequer Office, 1672-1698," Journal of Legal History 11 (1990): 70.
23. "John Locke, Lord Mansfield and Arbitration in the Eighteenth Century, " Historical Journal 36 (1993): 137-59.