TY - BOOK ID - 26470806 TI - The legal framework of English feudalism PY - 1977 SN - 0521209471 0521082838 1139085204 0511561245 9780521209472 9780511561245 9780521082839 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of the law KW - Great Britain KW - Feudal law KW - Droit feĢodal KW - Law, Feudal KW - Land tenure KW - 34 <09> KW - 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) KW - Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) KW - Feudalism KW - Law and legislation KW - Law KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Land tenure - Law and legislation - Great Britain KW - Feudal law - Great Britain KW - Real property UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:26470806 AB - Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his lord's control; the lord had no discretion, only the power to decide disputes according to external criteria; jurisdiction in that sense was all the lord lost as royal remedies developed; and all the tenant gained was better protection of unaltered rights. It is a picture of procedural changes taking place against an unchanging background, with the feudal structure at the beginning almost as insubstantial as it was to be at the end. ER -