History of English Law

1. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 2 authority · 2 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 endorsed 6 citations · 7 passages

   ch. 15 · ch. 23 · (2): maritagium. · ch. 229 4 passages anchored here

   Named directly as source for the statement that this chapter gave rise to a later remedial writ.

   “Upon this chapter was afterwards framed the writ de moderata misericordia, for giving remedy to a party who was excessively amerced.

2. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 4 authority 4 citations · 11 passages

   ch. 8 8 passages anchored here · ch. 9 · ch. 23 2 passages anchored here

   Crabbe's history is quoted twice as authority on jury practice in different historical periods.

   “The sheriff presided at the hundred court, * * and sometimes sat in the place of the alderman (earl) in the county court.

3. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 51

   Referenced as the standard historical account of English law.

   Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, i.

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