But if this trial really were any other than the trial by jury, it must have been nearly or quite extinct at the time of Magna Carta; and there is no probability that it was included in "legem terrae.
Spooner asserts that if a trial method was different from the jury trial, it likely ceased to exist by the time of the Magna Carta.
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