The Assize of Novel Disseisin

Beckerman, John S.; Sutherland, Donald W.

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“…Under an assize of novel disseisin, the jurors were to view the tenement in question to determine the extent of the land or rights that had been denied the plaintiff but here, in addition to this, the chancellor and justices were said to have witnessed the ceremonial restitution of Alice's rights. 63 Some form of such ceremony had been common in the transfer of land. Known as livery of seisin, the property must be delivered to the recipient, who needed to enter into possession of the land (seisin), often with the grantor giving the recipient some token of ownership, such as a rod or a glove and, increasingly, a written charter or deed.…”

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Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450

Brown,

Cox

2023

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Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the increasing penetration of legal processes into their everyday lives. Yet, in recapturing this world, there is a danger that we take for granted the immense documentary power of a large institutional repository. This article follows several legal conflicts across the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries involving the monks of Durham Priory to demonstrate the extent of this archival culture, showing how they turned to their vast array of documentary evidence for information about those who had incurred their wrath. Using their archives, they traced the descent of holdings, the offices held by key individuals, and previous payments in account rolls, all in a bid to demonstrate their rights, the ‘abuses’ of officials, and to counter legal opposition. Not content, the monks then compiled this evidence into an alternative narrative of events that questioned previous legal proceedings and ceremonies, constructing an institutional memory that saw contradictory documentation as ‘entirely most falsely forged’.

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Section: Conflict and Contestation In The Courtsmentioning

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Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450

Brown,

Cox

2023

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Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London 1300–1550

Tucker¹

2007

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Between 1300 and 1550, London's courts were the most important English lay law courts outside Westminster. They served the most active and innovative of the local jurisdictions in which custom combined with the common law to produce different legal remedies from those contemporaneously available in the central courts. More importantly for the long term, not only did London's practices affect other local courts, but they influenced the development of the national common law, and quite possibly the development of the legal profession itself. This 2007 book provides a detailed account, accessible to non-legal historians, of the administration of the law by the medieval and early modern city of London. In analysing the workings of London's laws and law courts and the careers of those who worked in them, it shows how that administration, and those involved in it, helped to shape the modern English law.

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London Women, the Courts and the ‘Golden Age’: A Quantitative Analysis of Female Litigants in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Stevens

2012

The London Journal

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The Assize of Novel Disseisin

Cited by 8 publications

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Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450

Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450

Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London 1300–1550

London Women, the Courts and the ‘Golden Age’: A Quantitative Analysis of Female Litigants in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

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