Marlborough Statute
The Marlborough Statute is an English law enacted in November 1267 after the end of the Second Barons' War .
After the Dictum of Kenilworth, issued on October 30, 1266 , could not end the desperate struggle of the disinherited , the remaining supporters of the reform party of Simon de Montfort , King Henry III. the Marlborough Statute. The law passed at a parliamentary assembly in Marlborough in November 1267 consisted of 29 chapters and took up elements of the Provisions of Oxford and Westminster , which had been passed by the Reform Party before the Barons' War. It upheld the Magna Carta , but above all it regulated compensation for smaller landowners and contained provisions on confiscation and land transfer. Of great importance was the nominal abolition of the feudal lord's right to revert, which also applied to the king as supreme liege lord. After that, a feudal lord could only formally take possession of the land of his deceased feudal lord in order to document his feudal rule , in fact it remained in the possession of the heir.
Chapters IV and XV restricted the right of creditors to seize property from their debtors. Although they were long out of date in legal practice, they were not formally repealed until 2015. Chapter I, according to which disputes about damage suffered can only be resolved in court and not through feud , continues to govern as governed by UK law.
literature
- Paul Brand: Kings, barons and justices. The making and enforcement of legislation in thirteenth-century England . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-37246-1
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Guardian: Medieval laws face ax in legal pruning, June 3, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015 .