Synopsis A Historical Treatise on Trial by Jury, Wager of Law, and Other Co-Ordinate Forensic Institutions, Formerly in Use in Scandinavia and Iceland by : Thorleifr Gudmundson Repp
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...nor shall we be prevailed " on by relationship, affinity, fear, friendship, or " ' favour: and we oblige ourselves to keep invio" late all the preceding ariiculos, and such as " ' follow hereafter in this Balk, according to the " law now stated. So may God help us, and " ' the holy things we hold in our hands.' Whom" soever these twelve, Or Seven of their number, " cast before the king himself, or those who judge " under his commission in a court of inquisition, " or on a Landsthing, as is stated in the Thing" mal (section of the code), let him be cast, and " lose his hand, head, life, and goods, or money, " to the king, or the prosecutor and the district, " according to the nature of the offence. Whom" soever they discharge, let him be discharged. " Against this Jury There Is No Appeal." The words, " They shall attentively and dili" gently seek out and discover," &c. might suggest to the reader the notion that this King's Jury, or Namnd, were not a real Jury, but rather a kind of officers or commissioners of the peace, or even a sort of public prosecutors; such, however, is not the case. They were Jurors to all intents In Norway there was no Jury invested with such a power. and purposes, and to them lay an appeal from the inferior Juries, they having to adjudge in last resort all causes, before decided by the former. We learn from the Thingmala Balk, that the gradation was this: from the Hundreds Jury, an appeal lay to the Lawman's Jury; and from the latter to the King's Jury, which decided finally without any further appeal. The mode of election, i. e. how the king and the people concurred in the nomination of Jurors, is not stated in the passage here quoted. Perhaps we may in this place refer to the Oestgotha Laght by way of...
