Leges Henrici

• Leges Henrici

[Latin, Laws of Henry.] A book written between 1114 and 1118 containing Anglo-Saxon and Norman law. It is an invaluable so...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Jap–Ma

• Six of one is not a dozen of the other: the size of state criminal juries.

The US Supreme Court in Williams v. Florida incorrectly interpreted the 6th Amendment right to trial by jury as not mandating the historic common law 12 person standard. Scholarly evidence demonstrates that the Court's analysis was incorrect in considering the 12 person standard as a historical accident and misconceiving the Framers' intent in retention of the common law standard. Social science research supports the argument that differences in group size result in different outcomes.

... the long-accepted principles of the Leges Henrici that the frailty of human testimony was in...

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 146 Nbr. 2, January 1998

• The commoning of the common law: the Renaissance debate over printing English law, 1520-1640.

The history of the publication of the common law of England during the Renaissance period between 1520 and 1640 includes a broader history of ideas and similar contemporary debates over theological and other forms of publicity. The idea that those subject to the mandates of law should understand the reasons for its existence developed during this period. Political and social issues underlaid debates over publication.

... of law printing offered in Henrician England, an echo of humanist and Protestant advoca... compilations of British and Saxon laws, the Leges Henrici Primi, common law monographs by Hengham an...

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 146 Nbr. 2, January 1998