IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 615: Law and Justice in the City, IV: Justice and Sanctuary in the City
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: | Paul R. Hyams, Department of History, Cornell University / Independent Scholar, Oxford |
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Paper 615-a | Summary Justice in 13th-Century Italian Cities: A Panoramic Study (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Law, Social History |
Paper 615-b | Oyer and Terminer in Town and Country (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 615-c | A Case Study of Sanctuary: The Town of Beverley and the Monastic Church of St John (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Local History, Monasticism |
Abstract | Paper a: Before papal legislation (clementina 'Saepe') defined authoritatively in the early 14th century the rules of summary justice, the use of abbreviated procedures, less formal and solemn if compared to normal 'ordo iuris', is attested – besides doctrinal works and papal delegations – by statutory law. This paper is aimed at providing a review of the presence and diffusion of the 'clausulae diminuentes iuris ordinem' (for instance de plano, summarie, simpliciter, sine figura iudicij) in the statutes of Italian cities, in order to determine which ones were most frequent, which differences they introduced into ordinary procedure, and which kinds of controversies were scheduled as summary or abbreviated. |