Crabbe
historical figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Legal historian quoted on jurors functioning as judges in Norman and Saxon times.
“The sheriff presided at the hundred court, * * and sometimes sat in the place of the alderman (earl) in the county court.
* * By another law, the judges, for so the jury were called, were to be chosen by the party impleaded, after the manner of the Danish nembas;
Crabbe, speaking of the time of Henry I.