QUOTES WITH «TRIAL BY BATTLE»
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trial by battle.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIAL BY BATTLE»
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trial by battle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Hundred Years War:
Trial by battle
What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and impermanent peace treaties, and one of the central events in the history of England and ...
2
Trial by Fire and
Battle in Medieval German Literature
Offers a broader, more contextualized understanding of the function of ordeals in medieval literature and society.
3
The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures
One form of the ordeal seems to have been unused by the Anglo-Saxons, namely
, trial by battle, the judicial duel. This is a very curious fact, for I believe that in all
the kindred systems of law the duel has a place. Perhaps we may attribute this to
...
Frederic William Maitland, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, 1908
However, it is clear that by the time of King Liutprand (712-744), the king had lost
confidence in the likelihood that the trial by battle (the camfio in the Lombard laws
) would provide justice, but Liutprand continues that "on account of the customs ...
Katherine Fischer Drew, 2004
5
History of
Trial by Jury
With regard to the second of these, however, Sir Francis Palgrave thinks, that
notwithstanding the silence of Anglo-Saxon laws and records on the subject, trial
by battle may have existed in England before the Conquest. He says:' "It must be
...
William Forsyth, Appleton Morgan, 1852
6
The Grand Jury: An Essay Awarded the Peter Stephen Duponceau ...
... or his proper kinsman; and the accusation by the public voice, that is, the
presentment by the accusing body that the defendant was suspected of certain
offences.47 If the appeal was properly brought, the trial by battle was usually
awarded.
George John Edwards, 1906
7
An Essay on the
Trial by Jury
23 The trial by battle was one in which the accused challenged his accuser to
single combat, and staked the question of his guilt or innocence on the result of
the duel. This trial was introduced into England by the Normans, within one
hundred ...
8
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ...
jury :- Thus, if the appellant was a female ; or under age ; or above the age of
sixty ; or in holy orders ; or was a peer of the realm ; or was expressly privileged
from the trial by battle by some charter of the king ; or laboured under some
material ...
Probably he does not lead us far astray in what he states regarding trial by battle.
A comparison of Glanvill with the first three books of the Regiam, as brought out
below in parallel columns,1 discloses certain interesting facts, 1 Table ...
10
Law-dictionary Explaining the Rise, Progress and Present ...
Now these freemen had their free- law : they were raised above the mode of trial
belonging to slaves, because they were freemen ; but they did not aspire to the
honours of trial by battle, because they were not warriors : The privileges, ...
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820
