2.4.4 Administration and Legal Reforms

• What were John's goals for administrative and legal reforms?

  Strengthen royal authority, increase revenue
• John aimed to standardize legal procedures to strengthen royal authority.
• John aimed to increase revenue by enforcing feudal dues
• Match the goal with the method used by John:

  Strengthen royal authority ↔️ Standardizing legal procedures

  Increase revenue ↔️ Efficient tax collection
• What were the two main goals of John's administrative and legal reforms?

  Strengthen authority, increase revenue
• John improved administrative efficiency by standardizing administrative processes
• Which written record did John use to track financial transactions?

  Pipe Rolls
• John's administrative reforms aimed to create a more efficient system to strengthen royal authority.
• Order the changes John made to the legal system from the old to the new system:

  1️⃣ Local courts dominated

  2️⃣ Royal courts expanded

  3️⃣ Inconsistent legal procedures

  4️⃣ Standardized common law

  5️⃣ Lack of written legal code

  6️⃣ Developed written laws
• What type of law was centralized under John's reforms?

  Common law
• John's legal reforms made legal processes more uniform
• John's legal reforms increased the King's authority.