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Ladd, John, 26

La Farge, Catherine, 156 n. 33

Lancashire, Anne, 188 n. 7

Lancashire, Ian, 188 n. 7

Lancelot (in MD ), 30 , 31 , 33 , 99 -100

Lancelot , Vulgate prose version, 35 , 146 n. 6, 153 n. 21,163n. 31;

and Dolorous Guard, 51 ;

major source of customs and castles, 155 n. 29

Lancelot do Lac , 146 n. 6

Lander, J. R., 151 n. 6, 190 n. 6

Lavatar, Lewes, 129

law: American, 21 , 172 n. 29;

Athenian, 45 ;

borough customs, 20 ;

change of venue, 23 ;

courts of the manor, 27 ;

and custom, 6 , 20 , 39 , 127 ;

under Edward I, 23 ;

under Edward IV, 24 ;

English common, 7 , 13 , 16 , 20 , 111 , 117 , 120 , 125 , 168 n. 20, 187 nn. 3,5;

French, 70 ;

habeas corpus, 22 ;

under Henry II, 23 ;

under Henry VI, 20 ;

under Henry VIII, 175 n. 3;

history of, 10 , 15 -16;

inconvenience of, 92 , 178 n. 16;

Irish Brehon, 189 n. 18;

Italian civil, 168 n. 20;

and jurisprudence, xiv ;

Pleas of the Crown, 23 ;

pun on seals, 175 n. 3;

Quia emptores , 23 ;

retribution and, 45 ;

Roman, 168 n. 20;

social contract, 31 -32;

Statute of Uses, 175 n. 3;

Statute of Winchester, 23 ;

and trial by combat, 22

Leah, 5

Leo X, Pope (Giovanni de' Medici), 61

Levin, Harry, 116

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 23

Lewis, C. S., 79 , 132 , 138 , 151 n. 3

literacy, and oral discourse, 169

Locke, John, 31

Lodge, Thomas, 112

Loomis, Roger Sherman, 147 n. 8

Lord of Noire Espine (in Y ), 30

Lucan (Pharsalia ), 53 , 164 n. 38

Lull, Ramon, 35

Lumiansky, R. M., 152 n. 20, 158 n. 40

Luther, Martin, 75 , 114 è

Lyotard, Jean-Franois, 58