What legal subjects were stable and which changed in your period. Did definitions of criminality expand or contract? In English common law, all felonies were punishable by hanging with no distinction among burglars, rapists, arsonists or thieves. The tendency over years was to add criteria that avoided treating different grades of criminal similarly. Inheritance and land tenure—stable or volatile? Market regulation, even if only like engrossing, forestalling and regrating. What private agreements were enforceable, and which not? How did judges draw on positive law and precedent?
Should I write an article about the different types of law that existed in the Czech kingdom and how they related to each other? Or should I focus on the fifteenth century and Hussitism's impact on the law?
I'll take an opposite tack from the question Carmen posed. I would think that it would be fairly simple to pick out parts of law the Bohemians adopted from the rest of Europe during this time. Those that were either through Canon or secular law. What, if anything, have you come across as far as law, legal systems, legal practices, legal thinking, or legal concepts, that they rejected or did not adopt? Were they ever going against the grain of the time, or the popular practices of their neighbors? If so, any reasons or theories as to why?
I'm always interested in rhe intersection between Canon and secular law. For example, in Catholic/Orthodox kingdoms marriage was sacramental, but issues of marital dispute or dissolution raise questions about property, inheritance, family power for the upper classes. Have you encountered any cases where this intersection occurred?
What legal subjects were stable and which changed in your period. Did definitions of criminality expand or contract? In English common law, all felonies were punishable by hanging with no distinction among burglars, rapists, arsonists or thieves. The tendency over years was to add criteria that avoided treating different grades of criminal similarly. Inheritance and land tenure—stable or volatile? Market regulation, even if only like engrossing, forestalling and regrating. What private agreements were enforceable, and which not? How did judges draw on positive law and precedent?
Should I write an article about the different types of law that existed in the Czech kingdom and how they related to each other? Or should I focus on the fifteenth century and Hussitism's impact on the law?
I'll take an opposite tack from the question Carmen posed. I would think that it would be fairly simple to pick out parts of law the Bohemians adopted from the rest of Europe during this time. Those that were either through Canon or secular law. What, if anything, have you come across as far as law, legal systems, legal practices, legal thinking, or legal concepts, that they rejected or did not adopt? Were they ever going against the grain of the time, or the popular practices of their neighbors? If so, any reasons or theories as to why?
I'm always interested in rhe intersection between Canon and secular law. For example, in Catholic/Orthodox kingdoms marriage was sacramental, but issues of marital dispute or dissolution raise questions about property, inheritance, family power for the upper classes. Have you encountered any cases where this intersection occurred?