Luke Owen Pike
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Mr. Pike · Pike
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Constitutional historian, author of A Constitutional History of the House of Lords, extensively cited and debated on the meaning of judgment of peers.
Pike, House of Lords, 170–4, shares this view of the reactionary nature of the clause, although he considers that the claim to judicium parium by a Crown tenant might be satisfied by the presence of one or more barons among the judges of the “Benches,” and did not necessarily involve a full commune concilium.
Pike, House of Lords, 217, citing Littleton in Year Book, Easter, 10 Edward IV.
170) maintains, indeed, that the prevention of disseisins “sine judicio” was the chief, if not the sole, object of the chapter under discussion:
The Genius of the Common Law
Editor of Year Books in the Rolls Series and a scholar confirming Stephen's account of pleading.
They were set forth in the early nineteenth century in an excellent book which is perhaps more honoured at this day in America than in the mother land, Stephen on Pleading.
Pike, among other unprinted cases, in 1908:
Pike (Rolls series, 1905), p.