{"id":10217,"date":"2017-12-06T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10217"},"modified":"2017-12-08T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T03:31:58","slug":"homage-jury-historically-a-jury-in-a-court-baron-consisting-of-tenants-who-made-homage-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10217","title":{"rendered":"Homage Jury – historically, a jury in a court baron, consisting of tenants who made homage to the lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

homage jury<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Hist<\/em>. A jury in a court baron, consisting of tenants who made homage to the lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

court baron<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A manorial court that had jurisdiction over amounts in controversy of 40 shillings or less.\u00a0 *\u00a0 According to some authorities, the court baron developed into two courts: the customary court baron for disputes involving copyholders, and the court baron proper (also known as the freeholders\u2019 court baron), in which freeholders were allowed to hold court concerning minor disputes. <\/strong>\u2014 aka freeholder\u2019s court baron<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland’s The History of <\/em><\/a>English Law Before the Time of Edward I<\/em> (2d ed. 1898):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIn Coke\u2019s day it was said that the lord of a manor had one court, \u2018a court baron,\u2019 for his freeholders and another court, \u2018a customary court,\u2019 for his copyholders, and that <\/span>in the latter the lord or his steward was the judge.\u00a0 Now over his unfree men the lord had, according to the law of the king\u2019s court, almost unlimited power; short of maiming them he might do what he liked with them; and every tenant of an unfree tenement was a tenant at will. Nevertheless in the court rolls and the manuals for stewards which come to us from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries we cannot discover two courts or two methods of constituting the court. Freeholders and serfs are said to owe suit to the same halimoot, and so far as we can see, the curia which pronounces judgment is always the same body.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1<\/span><\/strong>]: Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of <\/em><\/a>English Law Before the Time of Edward I<\/em> 593 (2d ed. 1898).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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