In some degree the obscurity may be due to the fact that French justiciarsand French clerks have become the exponents of English law.
Now, if these be the interrogatories that the justiciars administered to the jurors, then the answering verdicts as they are recorded in Great Domesday err both by defect and by excess.
But if the Justiciars were then sitting, and Roger de Kirkpatrick was still one of them--for he and Walter de Burghdon were appointed Justiciarsfor Galloway on October 25--there may be some difficulty in accepting the tradition.
The Justiciars had prudently barricaded the doors, but, when Bruce called for fire, they instantly surrendered.
Next, Justiciars were appointed, a pair for each of the four divisions of the country.
While this scene was enacting, the English Justiciars were in session in the Castle.
Men who dwell without the forest need not henceforth come before our justiciars of the forest upon a general summons, except those who are impleaded, or who have become sureties for any person or persons attached for forest offenses.
The Justiciars refused to take cognizance of the matter, but the Fitzwalters did not soon or easily abandon their demands, which were renewed by John, grandson of Robert Fitzwalter, in 1347.
My own evidence proves that the same three justiciars had been with him, earlier in the summer, in his special curia at Evesham, where an actual fine was levied.
On the contrary, the citizens had usually shown studied respect towards the justiciars whenever they came to the Tower for the purpose of holding pleas of the crown.
It was not thought to be in any way derogatory to secure the goodwill of the king’s justiciars by making ample presents.
M234) After Easter the sittings of the justiciars were resumed.
In a word, everything was to be done that could add to the dignity of the justiciars and the solemnity of the occasion.
The justiciars occasionally protracted their sittings till dusk, much to the disgust of the citizens, whose business was necessarily at a stand-still, and as yet no indictments had been made.
This was not what the justiciars had been accustomed to.
In later years, however, upon an enquiry being held by the Justiciars of the Iter (a° 14 Edward II, A.
The king’s justiciarswere sitting at the Tower, where the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of the city had been summoned to attend.
A deputation was appointed—selected members of the common council—who should also proceed to the Tower for the purpose of giving an official welcome to the justiciars on behalf of the citizens.
They did not mind this so much as they did the annoyance caused by the king’s justiciars eighteen months later.
The great justiciars at the head of the legal administration, De Lucy and Glanville, steadily carried out the new code, and a body of lawyers was trained under them which formed a class wholly unknown elsewhere in Europe.
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