Judgment of Peers
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judgment of their peers · judicium parium · judgment of his peers · legal judgment · legal judgment of peers · legal judgment of their peers
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The legal principle that disputes and disseisins must be judged by one's peers, applied to Welsh claims though left partly undefined.
If we have disseised or removed Welshmen from lands or liberties, or other things, without the legal judgment of their peers in England or in Wales, they shall be immediately restored to them;
All three classes of alleged disseisins (whatever the law involved) were to be decided by a judicium parium;
Si nos disseisivimus vel elongavimus Walenses de terris vel libertatibus vel rebus aliis, sine legali judicio parium suorum, in Anglia vel in Wallia, eis statim reddantur;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The principle that individuals may be deprived of property or liberty only by the judgment of their peers.
There would evidently have been no sense in these complaints, that he deprived men of their property “without legal judgment of their peers,” if his laws had been binding upon the peers;
By Magna Carta John bound himself to make restitution for some of the spoliations he had committed upon individuals “without the legal judgment of their peers.
One of the great charges, on account of which the nation rose against John, was, that he plundered individuals of their property, “without legal judgment of their peers.