Law and society in later medieval England and Ireland : essays in honour of Paul Brand / edited by Travis R. Baker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Justice delayed : absent recognitors and the Angevin legal reforms, c. 1200 / William Eves -- Testament and inheritance : the lessons of the brief widowhood of Isabel, countess of Pembroke / David Crouch -- A crossroads in criminal procedure : the assumptions underlying England's adoption of trial by jury for crime / Elizabeth Papp Kamali and Thomas A. Green -- The General Eyre and royal finance / Jens R�ohrkasten -- Royal privilege and episcopal rights in the later thirteenth century : the case of the Ashbourne Advowson, 1270-1289 / Joshua C. Tate -- The Clerk William Tyssyngton and the pursuit of fugitives in the late thirteenth-century / Karl Shoemaker -- Profits and perils of an Irish legal career : Sir Elias Ashbourne (d. 1356), Chief Justice and Marcher Lord / Robin Frame -- Two jurisdictions in dispute about canonical appeals : London and Canterbury, 1375-6 / F. Donald Logan -- The outlaw in later medieval Ireland / �Aine Foley -- The origins and development of judicial tenure "during good behaviour" to 1485 / Ryan Rowberry -- "Et subridet etc." : smiles, laughter and levity in the medieval year books / Gwen Seabourne -- Men of law and professional identity in late medieval England / Anthony Musson -- Legal services for the poor in the early common law / David J. Seipp.