Essay on the Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
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arma ibimus, nisi per legem regni nostri, vel per judicium parium
suorum in curia nostra, (nor will we go upon them by force or by arms, unless by the law of our kingdom, or the judgment of their peers in our court.) Pat. 16 Johan, apud Drad. 11, app. no. 124. He had hitherto been in the habit of going with an armed force, or sending an armed force on the lands, and against the castles, of all whom he knew or suspected to be his secret enemies, without observing any form of law." 3 Lingard, 47 note. [16] "Judgment, judicium. * * The sentence of the law, pronounced by the court, upon the matter contained in the record." 8 Blackstone, 895. Jacob's Law Dictionary. . Tomlin's do. "Judgment is the decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of the proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury." Bouvier's Law Dict. "Judgment, judicium. * * Sentence of a judge against a criminal. * * Determination, decision in general." Bailey's Dict. "Judgment. * * In a legal sense, a sentence or decision pronounced by authority of a king, or other power, either by their own mouth, or by that of their judges andofficers, whom they appoint, to administer justice in their stead." Chambers' Dict. "Judgment. * * In law, the sentence or doom pronounced in any case, civil orcriminal, by the judge or court by which it is tried." Webster's Dict. |
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