Within a Reasonable Time: The History of Due and Undue Delay in Civil Litigation

Inhalt: C. H. van Rhee, Introduction - I. Middle Ages: M. Ascheri, Between Statutory Law and Learned Law: Delay in the Early History of the Medieval Italian Communes (and Beyond) - P. Brand, 'To None Will We Sell, to None Will We Deny or Delay Right or Justice': Expedition and Delay in Civil Proceedings in the English Medieval Royal Courts - R. H. Helmholz, Due and Undue Delay in the English Ecclesiastical Courts (ca. 1300-1600) - K. W. Nörr, Verzögert oder beschleunigt: das Beispiel des römisch-kanonischen Prozessrechts - II. Early Modern Period: A. M. J. A. Berkvens, The Reform of Civil Procedure in the Rhine-Prussian Provinces: The Example of Prussian Gueldres 1713-1786 - J. Finlay, The History of Delay in Civil Procedure at the Scottish Court of Session (1600-1830) - A. M. Godfrey, Procedural Delay, Appeal and Advocation in the Court of Session in Sixteenth-Century Scotland - III. 19th and 20th Centuries: J. Blackie, Delay and Its Control in Mid to Late Nineteenth Century Scottish Civil Procedure - W. H. Bryson, The Code of Virginia of 1849 - S. Fockedey, Reducing Undue Delay in Nineteenth Century Belgium: a Sisyphean Task - T. P. Gallanis, Victorian Reform of Civil Litigation in the Superior Courts of Common Law - P. Oberhammer / T. Domej, Delay in Austrian Civil Procedure and the Legislator's Response - D. Tamm / A. Højer Schjøler, The Way to the 1916 Reform of Danish Procedural Law - S. Waddams, Clergy Discipline in the Church of England, 1830-1892 - A. Wijffels, Undue Delay and the French Code of Civil Procedure (1806)