High Court of Parliament in United Kingdom

(Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) The judicial role of parliament is based on the thirty-ninth clause of the Great Charter, which specified that a peer of the realm, if indicted for treason or felony, must be tried by his peers in parliament, rather than by royal judges.

High Court of Parliament and Medieval Law

High Court of Parliament and Legal History

Bibliographies of English Law History

• Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
• Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
• Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

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See Also

• Ecclesiastical Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Religious Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Torture (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Canon Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Ancient Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)