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A LEGA L OF THE JACO RBIURNS TAW IBRARY
MISCELLANEA
VOLUME 8, NuMBIR 1, SPRING, 2011:: Ta GEORGE XVASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AW ,CHOOL
SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
FOCUS:
A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest
(1615)
T rees, both figurative and physi-
cal, have recurred as a theme in
acquisitions for the Law Library. The
tree of consanguinity models found
in the works of early jurists provided
a roadmap for determining whether
prospective marital alliances would
be legal under canon law (see Special
Collections Focus: Arbor Cosanguini-
tatis (1500), A Legal Miscellanea, Vol.
7, No. 2 (Autumn, 2010)). Unlike
these kinship visuals, there is no help-
ful graphic which decodes the skein
of social, legal, and environmental
interlacings of the early modern
forest. In their quest to determine
exactly what the forest signified in
earlier societies, scholars often begin
by looking at jurist and forest scholar
John Manwood's works, especially
the 1615 edition of A Treatise of the
Lawes of the Forest (London: Societie
of Stationers).
John Manwood (d. 1610) was an
amateur of the forest, in the best sense
of the word. As a barrister at Lincoln's
Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest,
and Justice in Eyre of the New Forest
under Elizabeth I, Manwood possessed
a mix of legal and practical knowledge,
and a love, of forests which impelled
him to assemble the ancient and extant
forest laws in England, and comment
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ebel with a cause.
At each turn
in his life, the
French Huguenot
jurist Franyois Hotman
(1524-1590) courted
controversy. Born only
a short time after Martin
Luther nailed his Ninety-
Five Theses to the door
of the Castle Church in
Wittenberg, Hotman's
life unfolded during the
ecclesiastical upheaval of
the Reformation. A man
in revolt, he relinquished
his prominent robe- Through the generosity of Richard and Diant Cummins
noble family's Catholic De Feudis Commentatio Tripertita [1573], in mottled calf
with de Thou's coat of arms and cipher.
faith for Calvinism, end-
ing up in permanent exile in Switzerland after the St. Bartholomew's
Day massacre in 1572. In law and political theory Hotman was no less
bold. A respected but iconoclastic jurist, he advocated a reorganization
of jurisprudence, specifically preaching the reversal of the Roman law
influence in favor of formalization of the homegrown customary law in
France. In governance, Hotman favored a version of popular sover-
eignty. He wrote prolifically, and his seminal works are found in most
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We are pleased to announce that A Legal Miscellanea has been honored with the 2011
Law Library Publications Award (Print Division) by the American Association of Law
Libraries. The award recognizes achievement in creating in-house library materials that
are outstanding in quality and significance. The awards ceremony is scheduled for July25
during AALL's annual meeting in Philadelphia.
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