Anglo-Saxons
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)
“It was the freemen in Germany, and the possessors of land in England, who were suitors (jurors) in the hundred court.
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The pre-Norman English peoples and their kings, contrasted throughout with Norman strength.
It is thus necessary briefly to narrate how the scattered Anglo–Saxon and Danish tribes and territories, originally unconnected, were slowly welded together and grew into England;
As the weakness of the Anglo–Saxon kings and the disruption of the country had gone hand in hand;
Throughout his reign, he played off the old English laws and institutions against the new Norman ones, with himself as umpire over all.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The Germanic people whose legal customs, courts, and law codes underlie the English common law discussed.
Also, “The liberties of these Anglo-Saxon thanes were chiefly secured, next to their swords and their free spirits, by the inestimable right of deciding civil and criminal suits in their own county courts.
and the Saxons and Normans were familiar with it before they settled in England.
For all these codes see Wilkins’ Laws of the Anglo-Saxons.
Ancient Law
Early English people whose law and assembly practice are used as comparative examples.
The Teutonic Codes, including those of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, are the only bodies of archaic secular law which have come down to us in such a state that we can form an exact notion of their original dimensions.
Of this nature was the criminal jurisdiction of the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot.
Kemble (Anglo-Saxons, i.
Law in a Free State
The English/British people, referenced as a group that should prove its superiority through fair competition rather than exclusionary force.
And what Chinamen can do, Anglo-Saxons should be above doing;