caa a22 4500 388082259 CHVBK 20180307125220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744381 doi S0738248000011652 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744381 Macnair Mike Vicinage and the Antecedents of the Jury [Elektronische Daten] [Mike Macnair] The origins of trial by jury have been the subject of an extensive debate. The traditional approach to the creation of the "palladium of liberty” saw the jurors as lay judges and located their origins in the lay judges of Anglo-Saxon England, continuing through the survival of the "ancient constitution.” An alternative approach, that of Heinrich Brunner, found wide acceptance from the end of the last century and until recently. Brunner detected the origins of the jury in fiscal inquiries imposed by strong monarchs, reversing the constitutional politics of the older view. At present, the wheel has turned back toward judicial character and origins in general early medieval practice. The purpose of this article is to take a new look at the issue by approaching it from a different angle: the requirement that jurors should come de vicineto, from the locality. This approach has produced the following observations. Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 537-590 0738-2480 17:3<537 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744381 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744381 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Macnair Mike NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 537-590 0738-2480 17:3<537 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge