The Assize of Clarendon firmly established judicial procedure regarding crimes, especially the use of the grand jury system. The Assize was also used to check the power the local magnates gained during Stephen's anarchy by taking power away from the local courts (and hence the local magnates), returning it to the crown.
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The Constitutions of Clarendon, as White and Notestein have said, are so well-known to need much of an introduction. ... From the year of our Lord's incarnation 1164, the fourth year of the papacy ofAlexander, the tenth of the most illustrious Henry, king of the English, in thepresence of the same king,
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The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of Henry II of England that began the transformation of English law from such systems for deciding the prevailing party in a case as trial by ordeal or trial ...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Assize of Clarendon (English history), (1166), a series of ordinances initiated by King Henry II of England in a convocation of lords at the royal hunting lodge of Clarendon. ... CREATE MY Assize of Cl... NEW DOCUMENT...
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Assize of Clarendon; 1166; The Original Version of this Text was; Rendered into HTML by Jon Roland of the Constitution Society; Converted to PDF by Danny Stone as a Community Service to the Constitution Society; ... Assize of Clarendon 1; Here begins the Assize of Clarendon made by; King Henry II., with the assent...
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Here begins the Assize of Clarendon made by King Henry II., with the assent of archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and barons of all England. ... 22. And the lord king wills that this assize be held in his kingdom as long as it shall please him...
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King Henry II (1154-1189) issued the Assize of Clarendon in 1166. Note: an ‘assize' is a word with many connotations: it refers to a judicial assembly, the decision(s) made by that assembly, and the formal judgment issued in the case.
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Assize of Clarendon An assize (set of instructions for the king's judges) issued on Henry II's orders at Clarendon in 1166 ... British History: Assize of Clarendon...
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Of the Assize of Clarendon, Stubbs says (Charters, p. 141): "It is a document of the greatest importance to our legal history, and must be regarded as introducing changes into the administration of justice which were to lead the way to self government at no distant time."
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Ancient ; 4000bce - 399 ... Assize of Clarendon, 1166 ... Constitutions of Clarendon. 1164...
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