both civil and criminal, in which
juries sit. The same volume will probably also discuss several political
and legal questions, which will naturally assume importance if the trial
by jury should be reestablished.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I. THE RIGHT OF JURIES TO JUDGE OF THE JUSTICE OF LAWS, 5

SECTION 1, 5

SECTION 2, 11

CHAPTER II. THE TRIAL BY JURY, AS DEFINED BY MAGNA CARTA, 20

SECTION 1. _The History of Magna Carta_, 20

SECTION 2. _The Language of Magna Carta_, 25

CHAPTER III. ADDITIONAL PROOFS OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF JURORS, 51

SECTION 1. _Weakness of the Regal Authority_, 51

SECTION 2. _The Ancient Common Law Juries were mere
Courts of Conscience_, 63

SECTION 3. _The Oaths of Jurors_, 85

SECTION 4. _The Right of Jurors to fix the Sentence_, 91

SECTION 5. _The Oaths of Judges_, 98

SECTION 6. _The Coronation Oath_, 102

CHAPTER IV. THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF JURIES IN CIVIL SUITS, 110

CHAPTER V. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED, 128

CHAPTER VI. JURIES OF THE PRESENT DAY ILLEGAL, 142

CHAPTER VII. ILLEGAL JUDGES, 157

CHAPTER VIII. THE FREE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, 172

CHAPTER IX. THE CRIMINAL INTENT, 178

CHAPTER X. MORAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR JURORS, 189

CHAPTER XI. AUTHORITY OF MAGNA CARTA, 192

CHAPTER XII. LIMITATIONS IMPOSED UPON THE MAJORITY BY
THE TRIAL BY JURY, 206

APPENDIX--TAXATION, 222

TRIAL BY JURY.

CHAPTER I.

THE RIGHT OF JURIES TO JUDGE OF THE JUSTICE OF LAWS.

SECTION I.

For more than six hundred years--that is, since Magna Carta, in
1215--there has been no clearer prin