Court Baron
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the Court Baron · court baron · court-baron · courts baron · feudal court · manorial court · seignorial court · the manor court
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1 expressionCourts Baron“Manorial Courts”1 mention
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
In pleas of disputed titles to land, feudal theory gave sole jurisdiction to the lord of the fief.
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The aspect of the manorial court settling civil disputes among the manor's freeholders.
Later writers distinguish absolutely from each other, the Court Baron, settling civil disputes between freeholders of the manor;
while the “peers” of the tenant of a mesne lord were the other suitors of the Court Baron of the manor.
To insist that in all cases a judgment of feudal peers, either in King’s Court or in Court Baron, should take the place of a judgment by the King’s professional judges, was to reverse one of the outstanding features of the policy of Henry II.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A court incident to every manor, in which the lord's freeholder-tenants served as judges.
“Out of the county court was derived an inferior court of civil jurisdiction, called the court-baron.
“The Court-Baron is a court incident to every manor in the kingdom, to be holden by the steward within the said manor.