1851, ISBN: 9780217360371

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III. ? The Lives of the Chief Justices of England from the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Mansfield. By John Lord Campbell, LL. D., F. R. S. E. Philadelphia: Lea b Blanchard. 1851. 2 vols. 8vo. The Chief Justiceship was a Norman institution, first brought into England by the Conqueror, who did all in his power to impose the feudal system of Normandy upon the more simple and democratic polity of the Anglo-Saxons. In accordance with that system, he centralized the power of the law as well as that of the sword. Under the Anglo-Saxon regime, the administration of the law was parcelled among the shires, hundreds, tithings, and other divisions of the land, each of which had its court. This federal system, as it may be called, existed in the island for centuries, growing indigenously, like the forest trees, and undisturbed, to any revolutionary extent, by Continental influences. In spite of the Norman rule, operating through generations, (and operating still, ) the Anglo- Saxon element lived and grew strong with the people, and came at last to its proper supremacy, like the blood of Edgar Atheling. The old military principle of centralization is seen at work in France and the other governments of Europe and we can estimate how society there has prospered under it, and how it is likely to prosper. William the Norman, described by Byron in the opening of his unwritten Epic, as " The Child of Love, and Lord of War ? Him who made Enghmd bow to Normandy, And left the name ot Coniiucror, more thau King, To his unconquerable dynasty " ? instituted in England a central Court of Law for the whole kingdom, of which court he was himself the head, and his household servants the assistants. Thus the Seneschal, the Chamberlain, and Treasurer, were made Judges and as the k...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

1851, ISBN: 9780217360371

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This… mais…

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III. ? The Lives of the Chief Justices of England from the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Mansfield. By John Lord Campbell, LL. D., F. R. S. E. Philadelphia: Lea b Blanchard. 1851. 2 vols. 8vo. The Chief Justiceship was a Norman institution, first brought into England by the Conqueror, who did all in his power to impose the feudal system of Normandy upon the more simple and democratic polity of the Anglo-Saxons. In accordance with that system, he centralized the power of the law as well as that of the sword. Under the Anglo-Saxon regime, the administration of the law was parcelled among the shires, hundreds, tithings, and other divisions of the land, each of which had its court. This federal system, as it may be called, existed in the island for centuries, growing indigenously, like the forest trees, and undisturbed, to any revolutionary extent, by Continental influences. In spite of the Norman rule, operating through generations, (and operating still, ) the Anglo- Saxon element lived and grew strong with the people, and came at last to its proper supremacy, like the blood of Edgar Atheling. The old military principle of centralization is seen at work in France and the other governments of Europe and we can estimate how society there has prospered under it, and how it is likely to prosper. William the Norman, described by Byron in the opening of his unwritten Epic, as " The Child of Love, and Lord of War ? Him who made Enghmd bow to Normandy, And left the name ot Coniiucror, more thau King, To his unconquerable dynasty " ? instituted in England a central Court of Law for the whole kingdom, of which court he was himself the head, and his household servants the assistants. Thus the Seneschal, the Chamberlain, and Treasurer, were made Judges and as the k...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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