Mirror of Justices
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Ancient English law book cited by Coke in support of his interpretation of the word balivus.
) And in support of this idea he quotes from a very ancient law book, called the Mirror of Justices, written in the time of Edward I.
The Mirror of Justices itself also says, (ch.
Hughes, in his preface to his translation of Horne’s “Mirror of Justices,” (a book written in the time of Edward I.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A medieval legal treatise cited as endorsing the interpretation that the clause protected defendants from favouritism shown to plaintiffs.
This interpretation, which was adopted by the author of the Mirror of Justices, and by the writer of the notes appended to the Year Book already cited, found favour with Chief Justice Holt in 1700.
Later in the century, comes the mysterious medieval lawbook known as the Mirror of Justices, complaining of “the damnable disregard” of Magna Carta and containing a chapter on that document with some claims to rank as a commentary, although it represents the opinions of a political pamphleteer rather than those of an unbiassed judge.