Wednesday 21 October 2009 12.15

Venue: Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room

Organised by Oxford Legal History Forum in conjunction with Roman Law

Speaker: Remus Vulsan (Faculty of Law, McGill University and Swiss Institute of Comparative Law)

The presentation will analyze the relation between the ecclesiastical action of fidei laesio and the early jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. In 1908 Vinogradoff argued that breach of confidence, one of the original heads of jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, “clearly goes back to the Fidei laesio which ecclesiastical tribunals had claimed as their province.” More recent studies have uncovered possible paths of influence of the ecclesiastical action over the common law and Chancery courts.

Programme:

See abstract below, "Causa Fidei Laesionis in the English Ecclesiastical Courts and Its Influence on the Court of Chancery", via weblink.

For more information on this event, please contact: Joshua Getzler

Causa Fidei Laesionis in the English Ecclesiastical Courts and Its Influence on the Court of Chancery (Word document)