baron-courts

Updated: June 2, 2025

Also, "Among the Gothic nations of modern Europe, the custom of deciding lawsuits by a jury seems to have prevailed universally; first in the allodial courts of the county, or of the hundred, and afterwards in the baron-courts of every feudal superior." Same, vol. 2, p. 296.

Lysander Spooner - Essay on the Trial By Jury