Judicium Parium
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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.
The phrase “judicium parium” which, probably in consequence of its use in Magna Carta, sprang into “sudden and extraordinary prominence” was destined to have a long and distinguished career.
Although new modes of procedure came to prevail, the Court of Peers continued its control, and the judgment of peers gradually passed into the modern trial by peers.