View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 3 authority · 1 refuted · 1 endorsed 5 citations · 25 passages

   ch. 7 3 passages anchored here · ch. 8 3 passages anchored here · ch. 23 19 passages anchored here

   Hallam is quoted twice as a confirming authority on medieval court composition and legal simplicity.

   “The rules of legal decision, among a rude people, are always very simple;

2. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 15 2 passages anchored here · chapter fifty–five. · ch. 229 2 passages anchored here

   McKechnie quotes Hallam's well-known passage recounting anecdotal fines paid to King John as historical authority.

   Stubbs describes the product of John’s labours as “the system of fines which was elaborated into that minute and grotesque instrument of torture which all the historians of the reign have dwelt on in great detail,” and Hallam has a passage which has become classical:

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