Glanville
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Ranulf de Glanville
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Medieval legal writer whose treatise preserves ancient writs for summoning jurors.
All the ancient writs, given in Glanville, for summoning jurors, indicate that the jurors judged of everything, on their consciences only.
” See Writs in Beames’ Glanville, p.
“For the English laws, although not written, may, as it should seem, and that without any absurdity, be termed laws, (since this itself is law—that which pleases the prince has the force of law,) I mean those laws which it is evident were promulgated by the advice of the nobles and the authority of the prince, concerning doubts to be settled in their assembly.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Medieval English legal writer quoted on the uncertain succession rules affecting military tenures under Henry II.
The disputes among great Highland families about the title to the chieftaincy of particular clans appear to date from a period when there was still a conflict between the old principle of succession and the new;
Glanville, probably not earlier than the thirty-third year of Henry the Second’s reign, expresses himself as if the general rule of law caused lands held by free cultivators in socage to be divided equally between all the male children at the death of the last owner;