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On Using the English Reports as a Source for Ecclesiastical Law: A Cautionary Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Michael Smith
Michael Smith
Affiliation:
Vicar of St. David's Exeter
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‘One swallow docs not a summer make’ – so goes the old adage – and the object of this note is not to assert that reported cases are unreliable evidence. Its aim is to suggest that research must still extend beyond the printed evidence even for that period in history when collections of reported cases start to become freely available.

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Research Article
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 32
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1988

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