Balancing the scales of justice : local courts and rural society in southwest France, 1750-1800 / Anthony Crubaugh.
2001
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Author
Title
Balancing the scales of justice : local courts and rural society in southwest France, 1750-1800 / Anthony Crubaugh.
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Call Number
KJV3758 .C78 2001
Former Call Number
M.Fr 710 C888 2001
ISBN
0271020776 (alk. paper)
0271020784 (paper : alk. paper)
0271020784 (paper : alk. paper)
Description
xx, 257 pages : maps ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)43694450
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-249) and index.
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Portion of Title
Local courts and rural society in southwest France, 1750-1800
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. I
Old Regime Seigneurial Justice
1Public Power, Private Persons: The Organization of Seigneurial Justice in Aunis and Saintonge
3
2"A Bad Arrangement Is Better Than a Good Trial": Civil Justice in Seigneurial Courts
31
3Power, Honor, and Profit: Justice in the Defense of Seigneurialism
55
4The Short Arm of the Law: Seigneurial Justice and the Maintenance of Law and Order
83
Pt. II
The Revolutionary Justice of the Peace
5From the Procureur fiscal to the Juge de paix: The Revolutionary Changes in Local Justice
119
6The Amateurs at Work: Civil Justice Under the JPs
197
7The Enemies of Trials: Justices of the Peace and the Experiment in Mediation During the French Revolution
175
8Whose Law and Whose Order? The Justice of the Peace as a Police Officer
199
Reflections
223
Appendixes
229
Bibliography
235
Index
251