First published in 1945, this study covers a wide range of topics including marriage, divorce, bride-price, inheritance, property, personal status and contracts as well as some notes on the customary courts and the way they functioned during the period of British administration.
F.R.P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth…
As the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge of feudal and private law in the French kingdom. Frequently cited by legal histo…
