Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 159
... judges of the Crown contrived methods of making evidence available to such petty juries that eventually proved more realistic than all the elaborate rules of Roman Law . The judges expounded and interpreted the law , and the jurymen ...
... judges of the Crown contrived methods of making evidence available to such petty juries that eventually proved more realistic than all the elaborate rules of Roman Law . The judges expounded and interpreted the law , and the jurymen ...
Page 166
... judges of the King's Bench and Common Pleas escaped disgrace , while five justices of eyre were found guilty and dismissed . The most important result of these judicial scandals was a reorganisation of the legal profession . The task ...
... judges of the King's Bench and Common Pleas escaped disgrace , while five justices of eyre were found guilty and dismissed . The most important result of these judicial scandals was a reorganisation of the legal profession . The task ...
Page 167
... judges . ' Leave off your noise and deliver yourself from his account , ' Chief Justice Hengham interrupts an over - persistent pleader . ' Get to your business , ' his successor , Bereford , enjoins . ' You plead one point , they about ...
... judges . ' Leave off your noise and deliver yourself from his account , ' Chief Justice Hengham interrupts an over - persistent pleader . ' Get to your business , ' his successor , Bereford , enjoins . ' You plead one point , they about ...
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