Domesday Book
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Domesday · Domesday Inquest
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The great survey compiled by William I using the inquisitio procedure of sworn testimony.
William employed it in compiling Domesday Book;
The uses to which Inquisitio was put by William and his sons in framing Domesday Book, collecting information, and dispensing justice, have already been discussed.
See Domesday Book, I.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The English survey record cited for its obscure indications of servile tenant classes.
The position of the classes, obscurely indicated in Domesday and other ancient English records as Cotarii and Bordarii, was probably very similar to that of the Sencleithes and Bothachs;
The Genius of the Common Law
Medieval English survey record cited as the earliest documentary source of offers to prove claims by ordeal.
Offers to prove claims by any form of ordeal, ‘omnibus modis’ or ‘omnibus legibus,’ may be found, no doubt, from Domesday Book onwards.