Judicium Parium
idea · 1 work · 5 mentions · 12 anchored passages
judicium parium · trial by peers · judgment of peers · per judicium parium · trial of peers
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The principle of judgment by one's peers, invoked by the barons as the proper forum for determining questions of forfeiture.
The barons wished to refer such questions to the judicium parium.
They found nothing in their own day to correspond with the judicium parium of 1215;
to introduce trial by jury into John’s Great Charter is an unpardonable anachronism.