Millon, David [editor] — Select Ecclesiastical Cases From The King's Courts 1272-1307

The Selden Society 2009 1st edition. Cloth, F. cxxviii+[i]+105pp [ page numbers 1-82 used twice ], index, the reports section of the volume is printed in Latin on the verso of each pp with the English translation on the opposite recto ( hence the use of some page ordinals twice ), a fine copy. Publications of the Selden Society vol CXXVI. Contains collected cases in the Common Bench, King’s Bench and eyres for the reign of Edward I in which conflicts of jurisdiction arose between these royal courts and the church courts. The common law’s jurisdiction, though secular, and the canon law’s, though spiritual, could frequently overlap : thus contract, debt, trespass, defamation, tithes, wills and all manner of criminal conduct could sometimes also have a spiritual aspect, and so be potentially justiciable in either forum. The introduction provides a thorough explanation of the procedural and substantive law applied in the cases.