Tin mines and mining, Law and legislation, England, Cornwall (County), Devon, Stannary courts, Louis A. Knafla 

This is a full an final assessment of an amazing piece of social and legal history. The story is told for the general reader, but will also satisfy the lawyer or legal historian interested in comparing and contrasting stannary law with England's common law. The mining institutions are examined, the customary rights of miners to work for tin under bounds, the form and effect of mining setts or leases, the special form of company elaborated to carry on mining (the cost of book company), and the rules concerning taxation imposed on it.  

Contents:
The Stannary Institutions -- The tin coinage and the charters -- The stannary convocations -- The origin of the stannary courts -- The delimitation of the stannary jurisdiction during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The work of Sir Joseph Tredenham as vice-warden -- The stannary courts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Reform, glory and decline of the vice-warden's court -- Tin Bounding -- The creation of tin bounds -- The registration and proclamation of bounds -- Toll tin -- The renewal of bounds -- The working of bounds -- Mining setts and leases -- Form of setts -- The grantee's interest under a sett -- The obligations of the parties to a sett -- Forfeiture of setts -- The mining leases bill -- The refining and coinage of tin -- Contracts for stamping and smelting -- Convocation enactments in respect of smelting tin -- The tin coinage -- Mining companies -- Origins of the cost book company -- The formation and organization of cost book companies -- The working of cost book companies -- Shares in cost book companies -- Conclusion.  

Includes biographical references and index.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.