History of trial by jury in England

The history of trial by jury in England is influential because many English and later British colonies adopted the English common law system in which trial by jury plays an important part. == Anglo-Saxon England == According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England (1958), during the Viking occupation: The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the 'thing' to hear legal argument.

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