The intimate connection between medieval royal government and the administration of justice led to the emergence of a new generation of centralized law courts in early modern Europe, with a superior or even supreme jurisdiction. The contributions to this book seek to examine how such newly created or reformed central judicial bodies became integrated into the wider structures of jurisdiction within states, and how they related to other institutions of central governance such as parliaments or privy councils.

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A. M. Godfrey is Professor of Legal History at the University of Glasgow. His research and teaching interests are in legal history and the law of obligations. His main research field is the history of central justice, law courts, jurisdiction and dispute settlement in medieval and early modern Scotland. He has published extensively on the origins and development of the Court of Session, on the foundation of the College of Justice in sixteenth-century Scotland, and on early modern litigation and arbitration. With Heikki Pihlajamäki and Markus D. Dubber he has co-edited »The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History« (2018). He is a member of the editorial committee and former editor of »The Journal of Legal History«.Prof. Dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee is Professor of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

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A. M. Godfrey and C. H. van Rhee: Introduction K. Salonen: The Sacra Romana Rota N. G. Jones: The English Court of Chancery W. Prest: An ordinary court of justice? The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, 16891760 A. M. Godfrey: The College of Justice, Court of Session and Privy Council in sixteenth century Scotland, 15321603 J. D. Ford: Adjudication in the Scottish Parliament, 15321707 P. Oestmann: The highest courts of the Holy Roman Empire: Imperial Chamber Court and Imperial Aulic Council D. Tamm: The King in Council and the Supreme Court in Denmark, 15371660 M. Korpiola: The Svea Court of Appeal: A basis for good governance and justice in the early modern Swedish realm, 16141800 H. Pihlajamäki: The Appeals Court of Dorpat in the seventeenth century: Establishing Swedish judiciary overseas A. Wijffels: The supreme judicature in the Habsburg Netherlands C. H. van Rhee: Supreme judicature in Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland after the Dutch Revolt, 15821795 D. Freda: The Sacro Regio Consiglio of Naples, 15th17th century I. Czeguhn: The history of the supreme courts in the Iberian peninsula from the 14th century to the 18th century L. López Valencia: The Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies: the Supreme Court of New Spain S. Dauchy: The Sovereign Council of New France, 16631760 W. H. Bryson: The General Court of Virginia, 16191776 List of contributors