Named localities in cited court records
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Norfolk · Barkhamstead · St. Benedict · Westminster · Yarmouth · the Marches
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
County identified as Porson's birthplace.
Porson (1759-1808), the greatest Greek scholar of his time, was son of a Norfolk parish clerk, though sagacious patrons had sent him to Eton in his fifteenth year.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Various specific English locations named in connection with royal oaths and court records of bribery or jurisdiction.
The barons of the exchequer, for instance, the first nobility of the kingdom, were not ashamed to insert, as an article in their records, that the county of Norfolk paid a sum that they might be fairly dealt with;
“If we have disseized or dispossessed the Welsh of any lands, liberties, or other things, without the legal judgment of their peers, they shall be immediately restored to them.
’ Accordingly, we find that this great conqueror, at his coronation on the Christmas day succeeding his victory, took an oath at the altar of St.