The Judicial Procedure section describes the process of applying
the law and trying cases, and jurisdictions. It also contains some
examples of cases.
For easy comparison, amounts of money expressed in pounds or marks
[Danish denomination] have often been converted to the smaller
denominations of shillings and pence. There are twenty shillings
in a pound. A mark in silver is two-thirds of a pound. Shillings
are abbreviated: "s." There are twelve pennies or pence in a
Norman shilling. Pence are abbreviated "d." Six shillings and two
pence is denoted 6s.2d. A scaett was a coin of silver and copper
of lesser denomination than a shilling.
The sources and reference books from which information was
obtained are listed in a bibliography instead of being contained
in tedious footnotes. There is no index to pages because the
electronic text will print out its pages differently on different
computers with different computer settings. Instead, a word search
may be done on the electronic text.
Dedication and Acknowledgements
A Vassar College faculty member once dedicated her book to her
students, but for whom it would have been written much earlier.
This book "Our Legal Heritage" is dedicated to the faculty of
Vassar College, without whom it would never have been written.
Much appreciation goes to Professor Lacey Baldwin Smith of
Northwestern University's History Department and to Professor
James Curtin of Loyola Law School for their review and comments on
this book: The Tudor and Stuart periods: Chapters 11-17, and the
medieval period: Chapters 4-10, respectively.
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