Ecclesiastical Law in UK Law
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Reviews
Law and Politics. The House of Lords as a Judicial Body 1800–1976. By Robert Stevens The Darker Reaches of Government. By Anthony Mathews Television, Censorship and the Law. By Colin R. Munro. The ...... ... HALSBURY'S LAWS OF ENGLAND : ECCLESIASTICAL LAW; GENERAL IT is not often that a volume of Halsbury's Laws of England receives a review. That is a pity, because Halsbury is a very ... ...
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Secularizing a Religious Legal System: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Early Eighteenth Century England
The early eighteenth-century English ecclesiastical courts are a case study in the secularization of a legal system. As demonstrated elsewhere, the courts were very busy. And yet the theoretical ju...
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Dominium in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Political Thought and its Seventeenth-Century Heirs: John of Paris and Locke
Dominium, the notion of lordship, underwent important changes during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. An examination of the de potestate regia et papali genre, especially the tract by the D...... ... were known and used by seventeenth-century writers, especially Locke, whose library holdings and own tract ‘on civil and ecclesiastical power’ as well as his Second Treatise, express a debt to the de potestate regia et papali genre of the late scholastics. The notion of lordship, ... ...
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Void and Voidable Marriages
... ... , being considered to be of a spiritual nature and a sacrament, was regulated by canon law which was administered by the ecclesiastical courts. By canon law a marriage was either valid and unimpeachable or else void ab initio,I and the concept of a voidable marriage, that is ... ...
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LAW AND FAITH IN A SCEPTICAL AGE by ANTHONY BRADNEY
... ... This is precisely the approach taken in4233R.Williams, `Civil and Religious Law in England ± A Religious Perspective' (2008)10 Ecclesiastical Law J. 262±82.4 See, for example, B. Jackson, ` ``Transformative Accommodation'' and ReligiousLaw' (2009) 11 Ecclesiastical Law J. 131±53.5 Indeed, ... ...
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Reports of Committees
...REPORTS OF ,COMMITTEES PROPOSED REFORM OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS MANY lawyers would appear to be of the opinion that the church courts ceased to function altogether when their jurisdiction in ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... Collingwood J. in fact decided that he could hear the petition because it had once been the practice of the ecclesiastical courts to assume jurisdiction over marriages celebrated in England. The reference to the ecclesiastical courts and the variety of ... ...
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Brexit MK II The Road from Rome in the 1530’s
... ... By 1529, hewas keen to obtain an annulment from his existing wife, Catherine ofAragon. For the ecclesiastical lawyers, it was unfortunate that the King’sdesire to change wife required ecclesiastical approval under one of the mat-ters specifically reserved ... ...
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Books Received
... ... HERRING (ed.), Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy,Cullompton, Willan Publishing, 2001, £45.00 (hbk), £20.00 (pbk).Mark HILL, Ecclesiastical Law (2nd edn.), Oxford, Oxford University Press,2001, £68.00.Tim HOPE and Richard SPARKS (eds.), Crime, Risk and Insecurity,London, Routledge, 2000, ... ...
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Book Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: A Cmhrry of Pay by E. H. Phelps Brown with Margaret H. Browne Labor Theory by Richard Perlman Industrial Disputes: Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations by ...... ... IAN MCGIVERING The ManagemMt Centre, University of Bradford Minktry and Management. The Study of Ecclesiastical Adminhtration by Peter F. Rudge. Tavistock Publications in association with Hicks Smith, London, 1968, 183 pp., Paperback 18s. ANYONE who sits ... ...
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