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A Charge to the Grand-Jury at the Quarter - Sessions Held at Barnsley in Yorkshire, The Fifteenth Day of October, 1741

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

Richard Witton
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I find by Bracton, and Other the oldest Books in the Law, That the Justices, upon holding their several Courts of Sessions, did deliver in Writing to the several Grand Inquests certain Articles of Heads of Inquiry, which were commonly stilled Capitula Placitorum Corornæ; which were as Rules or Directions how they were to proceed in their Inquiries, for the better Performance of their Duty and Office.

Type
Research Article
Information
Camden Fourth Series , Volume 43: Charges to the Grandjury 1689–1803 , July 1992 , pp. 319 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1992

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References

page 319 note 1 This is an interesting note, for it proves Witton's knowledge of the customs of the time.

page 321 note 1 The war declared in Spain in October 1739, and which, begun as a colonial war, widened into a European conflict.

page 322 note 1 John, 1st Lord Somers, 1651–1716; Sir John Holt, L.C.J. 1642–1710; Sir George Treby, ?1644–1700. All famous lawyers.