Nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae
- Nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae
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Unless by lawful judgment of his peers or equals, or by the law of the land.
It was in these famous words that Magna Charta guaranteed to every freeman the right of trial by jury, "the principal bulwark of our liberties," when his person or his property was at stake. See 3 Bl Comm 350.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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