Justices in Eyre
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justices in eyre · eyre justices · itinerant justices · the forest justices · the justices
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The forest justices in eyre, the senior judicial officers before whom all forest pleas were ultimately determined.
The resulting report was placed before the justices of eyre as evidence of forest trespasses.
The evidence, stored up as a result of the work of the smaller courts, supplemented by the Rolls of the Regard, was laid before the justices, who summarily judged “pleas of the vert,” and “of the venison.
To lighten these hardships in comparatively unimportant cases, the Capitula of 1194 authorized Justices of Eyre to hold Grand Assizes where the lands did not exceed £5 in annual value.
The Genius of the Common Law
Itinerant royal justices whose visits combined the administration of justice with the collection of fines.
As for the older visitations of itinerant justices, the justices in eyre as they were called, they were quite as much bent on collecting fines, and discovering the irregularities which bred them, as on improving the administration of the law.