Wijffels Case Law in the Making

The Techniques and Methods of Judicial Records and Law Reports. Vol. 1: Essays.
1. Auflage 2013
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 17/1, 375 Seiten

Reihe: Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History

By the end of the middle ages and in early-modern Europe, judges in superior or central courts had risen to a prominent position in society and played a crucial role in legal developments. Whether in the Common Law system or in continental Europe, the courts' decisions became a focus for legal reasoning, forensic arguments and doctrine. Yet, it remains controversial to what extent these developments reflected the emergence of case-law in a modern sense. From a comparative perspective, it is also questionable whether, in spite of obvious institutional and procedural differences, the Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions produced a corpus of judge-made law which, if not by the way it was elaborated, at least by its results in the respective legal systems, played a similar role in the constant interaction between the various sources of law. The present volumes, which are a sequel to the volume "Judicial Records, Law Reports, and the Growth of Case Law" (J. H. Baker ed.), published in 1989, specifically consider the relationship between judicial records and law reports. The emphasis of the contributions is on the techniques applied by the authors of both records and reports. Records, whether in the Common Law tradition or in continental Europe, developed mainly in order to satisfy procedural requirements, whereas the authenticity of early reports did not meet the same standards as in modern times. Both these observations raise the question of the purpose of records and reports in the law-making process. Volume 1 contains essays discussing these questions in the Anglo-American tradition (Common Law, Equity, English Canon Law) and in various continental-European traditions (Italy, France, Germany, the Low Countries and the Roman Catholic Church). Volume 2 illustrates these essays by producing extensive samples of both records and reports in the systems reviewed in the first volume. Thus, the present publication offers the unique combination of scholarly texts which review the latest results of current legal-historical debates on the role of judges' decisions in medieval and early modern law, and, for the first time, a source-book of the courts' practices and the reporters' methods in a wide range of legal systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wijffels, Alain

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Inhalt: D. J. Ibbetson / A. Wijffels, Case Law in the Making: The Techniques and Methods of Judicial Records and Law Reports - J. H. Baker, The Common-Law Courts of Medieval England: Year Books and Plea Rolls - D. J. Ibbetson, Report and Record in Early-Modern Common Law - W. H. Bryson, Equity Reports and Records in Early-Modern England - R. H. Helmholz, Records and Reports: The English Ecclesiastical Courts - W. H. Bryson, Virginia Law Reports and Records, 1776-1800 - A. Romano, La Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia - C. Vallone, Corti feudali e poteri di giustizia nel Salento medievale - M. Ascheri, La Rota della Repubblica di Siena nel secolo XVI - B. Auzary-Schmaltz / S. Dauchy, Le Parlement de Paris - B. Auzary-Schmaltz, Les recueils d'arrêts privés au Moyen Age - S. Dauchy, Les recueils privés de 'jurisprudence' aux Temps Modernes - J. Bart, Les archives judiciaires du Parlement de Dijon - M. Petitjean, Les recueils d'arrêts bourguignons - F. Ranieri, Entscheidungsfindung und Technik der Urteilsredaktion in der Tradition des deutschen Usus modernus: das Beispiel der Aktenrelationen am Reichskammergericht - A. Wijffels, Grand Conseil de Malines: La rédaction des sentences étendues et le recueil de jurisprudence de Guillaume de Grysperre - J. T. de Smidt / C. Verhas, Le "Hoge Raad" (La Haye), Cour Suprême de Hollande, Zélande et Frise Occidentale - G. Dolezalek, Litigation at the Rota Romana, particularly around 1700

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;12
3;David Ibbetson and Alain Wijffels: Case Law in the Making: The Techniques and Methods of Judicial Records and Law Reports;14
3.1;I. Continental European Traditions;17
3.1.1;1. Legal authorities and judicial precedents;17
3.1.2;2. Technical prerequisites for the development of case law;21
3.1.3;3. Recording the practice and decisions of superior courts;23
3.1.4;4. Reporting the practice and decisions of superior courts;26
3.2;II. The English and American Traditions;29
3.2.1;1. Legal authorities and judicial precedents;29
3.2.2;2. Recording the practice and decisions of the superior courts;31
3.2.3;3. Reporting the practice and decisions of superior courts;32
3.3;Some Comparative Conclusions;34
4;Part One: English and American Traditions;38
4.1;J. H. Baker: The Common-Law Courts of Medieval England: Year Books and Plea Rolls;40
4.1.1;Introduction;40
4.1.2;I. Chaloner v. Moresle (1329);44
4.1.3;II. R. v. Bury (1321);46
4.1.4;III . Randolf v. Abbot of Hailes (1311);48
4.1.5;IV. Fyloll v. Ashley (1520);51
4.2;D. J. Ibbetson: Report and Record in Early-Modern Common Law;56
4.2.1;I. Introduction;56
4.2.2;II. The Record;56
4.2.3;III. The Reports;57
4.2.3.1;1. Reports prepared with a view to publication;59
4.2.3.2;2. Reports made on a regular basis throughout a lawyer’s career;60
4.2.3.3;3. Practitioners’ notebooks;61
4.2.3.4;4. Reports made by junior lawyers in preparation for practice at the bar;61
4.2.3.5;5. Students’ notebooks;63
4.2.4;IV. Report and Record in Legal Argument;64
4.2.5;V. An Illustrative Case;67
4.3;W. H. Bryson: Equity Reports and Records in Early-Modern England;70
4.3.1;I. The Court of Chancery;70
4.3.2;II. The Court of Exchequer;71
4.3.3;III. The Minor Courts of Equity;72
4.3.4;IV. The Records of the Courts of Equity;73
4.3.5;V. Reports of Equity Cases;75
4.3.5.1;1.;76
4.3.5.2;2.;77
4.4;R. H. Helmholz: Records and Reports: The English Ecclesiastical Courts;84
4.4.1;Introduction;84
4.4.2;The Records;86
4.4.2.1;Act books;86
4.4.2.2;Cause papers;91
4.4.2.3;Miscellaneous records;94
4.4.3;The Reports;94
4.5;W. H. Bryson: Virginia Law Reports and Records, 1776 - 1800;100
4.5.1;Downman v. Downman (1791);104
4.5.2;Turner v. Wright (1794);105
4.5.3;Pickett .. Morris (1796);106
5;Part Two: Continental European Traditions;110
5.1;Andrea Romano: La Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia;112
5.1.1;I. Curia Regis e magistri iusticiarii: la genesi del supremo tribunale del Regnum Siciliae;113
5.1.2;II. Strutture ed evoluzione del tribunale della Regia Gran Corte;121
5.1.3;III. I giudici;132
5.1.4;IV. Le procedure;137
5.1.5;V. Le sentenze: archivi e tecniche di registrazione;142
5.1.6;VI. Le decisiones della Regia Gran Corte e la loro auctoritas nel sistema giudiziario del Regno di Sicilia;146
5.1.7;VII. Vota e decisiones Magnae Regiae Curiae . Le raccolte siciliane edite e loro diffusione;156
5.2;Giancarlo Vallone: Corti feudali e poteri di giustizia nel Salento medievale;164
5.2.1;I. I tribunali feudali del Principe di Taranto e del Conte di Lecce;164
5.2.2;II. Il tribunale degli Orsini;172
5.3;M. Ascheri: La Rota della Repubblica di Siena nel secolo XVI;184
5.4;Bernadette Auzary-Schmaltz et Serge Dauchy: Le Parlement de Paris;200
5.4.1;I. Le Parlement de Paris: Cour souveraine du royaume de France;201
5.4.1.1;1. Les origines du Parlement de Paris;201
5.4.1.2;2. L’organisation du Parlement de Paris;203
5.4.1.3;3. Les fonctions du Parlement;206
5.4.1.4;4. Le Parlement et le pouvoir politique;208
5.4.1.5;5. Le Parlement de Paris et le droit;209
5.4.1.6;6. Le Parlement de Paris et les parlements de province;211
5.4.2;II. Les archives du Parlement de Paris;212
5.4.2.1;1. Présentation et description des sources;212
5.4.2.2;2. La finalité des registres;218
5.4.3;III. La reconstitution des dossiers;221
5.4.4;IV. Inventaires et instruments de recherche;222
5.5;Bernadette Auzary-Schmaltz: Les recueils d'arrêts privés au Moyen Age;226
5.6;Serge Dauchy: Les recueils privés de ‘jurisprudence’ aux Temps Modernes;238
5.6.1;I. Le Recueil d’arrêts notables de Georges Louet;239
5.6.2;II. Les sources et la méthode de travail des arrêtistes;242
5.6.3;III. La finalité des recueils privés d’arrêts;245
5.7;Jean Bart: Les archives judiciaires du Parlement de Dijon;250
5.7.1;I. Les chambres;250
5.7.2;II. Compétence des chambres et répartition des causes;253
5.7.3;III. Les ensembles documentaires;256
5.7.3.1;1. Les ‘plumitifs des audiences’;257
5.7.3.2;2. Les ‘registres des audiences’;260
5.7.3.3;3. Les ‘arrêts par écrit de commissaire’;262
5.7.3.4;4. Les procès-verbaux;264
5.8;Michel Petitjean: Les recueils d’arrêts bourguignons;268
5.8.1;Importance des recueils d’arrêts;268
5.8.2;Auteurs...;270
5.8.3;...et Types;271
5.8.4;Fiabilité;272
5.8.5;Principaux recueils d’arrêts bourguignons;275
5.9;Filippo Ranieri: Entscheidungsfindung und Technik der Urteilsredaktion in der Tradition des deutschen Usus modernus: das Beispiel der Aktenrelationen am Reichskammergericht;278
5.9.1;Einleitung;278
5.9.2;I.;280
5.9.3;II.;285
5.9.4;III.;288
5.10;Alain Wijffels: Grand Conseil de Malines: La rédaction des sentences étendues et le recueil de jurisprudence de Guillaume de Grysperre;300
5.10.1;I. La rédaction de sentences étendues;300
5.10.1.1;1. L’absence d’une motivation juridique;301
5.10.1.2;2. L’objet des sentences étendues;303
5.10.1.3;3. La rédaction par le greffier;304
5.10.2;II. Le recueil de G. de Grysperre;305
5.10.2.1;1. Agencement général;306
5.10.2.2;2. Conception des articles;308
5.10.2.3;3. Matières traitées;309
5.10.2.4;4. Arguments juridiques et motivations;310
5.10.2.5;5. Recours à des précédents et développements jurisprudentiels;311
5.10.3;Conclusion;312
5.10.4;Annexe;313
5.11;J. Th. De Smidt et C. Verhas: Le Hoge Raad (La Haye), Cour Suprême de Hollande, Zélande et Frise Occidentale;318
5.11.1;Introduction;318
5.11.2;I. Les archives judiciaires;319
5.11.2.1;1. Juridiction contentieuse, civile;319
5.11.2.2;2. Juridiction gracieuse;327
5.11.2.3;3. Contentieux où intervient le procureur général;327
5.11.3;II. Les recueils de jurisprudence;328
5.11.3.1;1. Recueils imprimés;330
5.11.3.2;2. Les recueils manuscrits;337
5.12;Gero Dolezalek: Litigation at the Rota Romana, particularly around 1700;340
5.12.1;I. The Type of Judicial Matters Handled by Rota Judges;341
5.12.2;II. Main Personnel Creating the Records of Cases;344
5.12.3;III. Steps of Proceedings and Respective Records;348
5.12.3.1;1. The ‘commissio’;348
5.12.3.2;2. Further proceedings before deliberation in Rota;350
5.12.3.3;3. The ‘dubium’;352
5.12.3.4;4. The deliberation stage of proceedings;353
5.12.3.5;5. Further procedure: new hearing or judgment;358
5.12.4;IV. The Court Records;361
5.12.5;V. Pertinent Archival Holdings;364
5.12.5.1;1. Archivio della Sacra Romana Rota (now in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano);364
5.12.5.2;2. Materials outside the Rota archives;366
5.12.6;VI. ‘Reports’? The Published Collections of ‘decisiones’;367
5.12.7;VII. Authority of Precedents;374
6;Contributors;376