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External Influences on the Evolution of Justice

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The Evolution of English Justice

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Abstract

Chapters 2 and 3 examined the evolution of justice during the fourteenth century primarily in a descriptive manner, without directly engaging with the various influences that acted upon that process. In the next two chapters, we shall analyse these influences, distinguishing between external or ‘exogenous’ factors and internal or ‘endogenous’ forces for change. In order to do so, we must remember, as in the example given in Chapter 1, that exogenous factors may accelerate change, but do not necessarily change the pre-existing pattern of development. It is also important in this context to remember the distinction between law, which may be seen as an organic form of social organisation capable of developing from within, and the judicial structure for the enforcement of that law, which is more often shaped by external forces. Because it focuses on exogenous factors, this chapter is principally concerned with structural issues, and specifically with the various influences that determined the hierarchy of courts and jurisdictions analysed in Chapters 2 and 3.

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Musson, A., Ormrod, W.M. (1999). External Influences on the Evolution of Justice. In: The Evolution of English Justice. British Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27004-0_4

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