Glanvill
historical figure · 4 works · 12 mentions · 18 anchored passages
Ranulf de Glanvill · the learned clerk who wrote under the shield of his name
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Author of the twelfth-century legal treatise attributed to Ranulf de Glanvill, cited as an early authority on feudal law.
Glanvill, indeed, mentions only two:
the goods of fugitives from justice and of those who had been formally outlawed also escheated, and Glanvill adds another case, namely, female wards guilty of unchastity (an offence which spoiled the king’s market).
Glanvill twice gives a writ directing the sheriff to uphold the Will of a testator;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Medieval English legal treatise-writer used to date changes in land tenure.
and a comparison of the treatises of Glanvill and Bracton enables us to fix the time when the most widely diffused of English tenures—socage—was just putting off the characteristics of the allod, and putting on those of the feud.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Medieval English jurist cited alongside Bracton as an authority for the King's need of arms and laws.
Bracton and Glanvill, in the front of their books, published that the King must have arms as well as laws;
The Genius of the Common Law
Name attached to an early treatise on the laws of England, with the text noting doubt about whether Glanvill himself or a clerk writing under his name was the true author.
Probably Henry of Bratton, perhaps even Glanvill or the learned clerk who wrote under the shield of his name, was sanguine enough to hope that no man would dare to make new rubbish-heaps where once the king’s broom had swept.