World Civilization: Laws and Justice
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8 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Louis IX | 1) wanted to connect kingship and justice 2) local provinces own laws 3) set up parlement (royal judicial system)-supreme court |
| Henry II | 1) developed the common law 2) focus on precedent |
| Circuit judges | judges try cases and circuit |
| Trial by Ordeal | 1) put someone in water sink=innocent, float=guilty 2) church involved 3) shifty people |
| Benefit of Clergy | commit a crime and are sanction by a religious rite. Early--clothing, Later--literacy test |
| Thomas Beckett | best friends with henry. So henry thinks he can manipulate him, so he makes him archbishop of canterbury. Killed in the christmas season. |
| John | 1) loses normandy to Philip II 2) spends his whole reign trying to get it back 3) taxed barons and tried to exhort towns 4) major campaign and he fails, then the Barons revolt and force him to attach his seal to the magna carta |
| Magna Carta | Everyone is subject to the law seeds for modern legal system, even kings. |
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