We also know, generally, that, at the time of Magna Carta, all acts intrinsically criminal, all trespasses against persons and property, were crimes, according to lex terra, or the common law.
This quote outlines the broad definition of crimes under common law during the time of Magna Carta.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.