My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface.
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New post from Krista Kesselring for Earth Day!
The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...
New post I wrote on the problems with raptus. Enjoy!
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New post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: "Reading Records of 'Raptus' from Thirteenth-Century England": legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/r...
On this Earth Day, the blog offers a brief introduction to an Elizabethan court case still cited in common law jurisdictions as a foundational precedent in assertions of the Crown’s mineral rights: the Case of Mines (1568).
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