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    Trial by Jury

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    An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

    The legal institution and doctrine of judging the accused by a jury of the country rather than by the government.

    ” And now, in every criminal trial, the jury are told that the accused “has, for trial, put himself upon the country;
    notice to english publishers section i
    “The trial by jury,” then, is a “trial by the country”—that is, by the people—as distinguished from a trial by the government.
    notice to english publishers section i
    The object of this trial “by the country,” or by the people, in preference to a trial by the government, is to guard against every species of oppression by the government.
    notice to english publishers section i

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    Judicial procedure identified as one of the administrative reforms elaborated by Hubert Walter during Richard's reign.

    (2) Throughout the reign, parts of Henry’s system, technical details of taxation and reforms in the administration of justice, were elaborated by Archbishop Hubert Walter, connected with trial by jury on the one hand and with election on the other.
    iv richard i and john
    For this purpose, he used four expedients, which are of great interest, in respect that they throw light on the process by which trial by jury superseded trial by battle.
    i trial by combat prior to the reign of john
    and nothing in Magna Carta (unless it were this clause) to correspond with trial by jury:
    1 the identification of judicium parium with trial

    The Unconstitutionality of Slavery19th Century · English

    A principle of English liberty listed as brought by the colonists from England.

    When our ancestors came to this country, they brought with them the common law of England, including the writ of habeas corpus, (the essential principle of which, as will hereafter be shown, is to deny the right of property in man,) the trial by jury, and the other great principles of liberty, which prevail in England, and which have made it impossible that her soil should be trod by the foot of a slave.
    chapter 3
    Does this look as if the constitution guarantied, or even recognized the legality of slavery?
    secondly
    The constitution declares that “the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.
    secondly

    Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

    The modern English jury system, described as the criterion of truth in English law.

    We take as our criterion of truth the unanimous opinion of twelve men on statements made before them.
    lecture ii the ancient irish law

    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    The judicial safeguard of trial by jury, noted as absent when legislatures adjudicate claims to public property.

    The trial by jury is excluded.
    chapter 15

    The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

    Common Law institution whose spread in the nineteenth century, including imitation by systems otherwise foreign to the Common Law, is called one of the most remarkable events in legal history.

    The spread of trial by jury in the nineteenth century is one of the most remarkable events in the general history of legal institutions.
    vi alliance and conquest