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En quête de sécurité juridique dans la Normandie angevine : concorde finale et inscription au rouleau

(‘The search for legal security in Angevin Normandy: final concords and enrolment’) The final concord is a familiar legal device to English historians, especially because of the development of ‘feet of fines’ as royal records of private collusive or fictitious pleas in the reign of Richard I. Much less has been said about French final concords. This article considers various ways in which ducal officials Normandy sought to make contracts more secure with final concords or enrolment of deeds, and compares these measures to parallel English developments; and it examines the significance of these procedures for the history of Normandy on the eve of its annexation to the Capetian realm.