Late Middle Ages
"presentment system" (jury of accusation)
Statute of Winchester of 1285
Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 18
death by crushing if you did not "elect" for jury trial
If Assize was also sitting
Could receive indictments for felonies
pretrial procedures for JPs
during Edward I
Act of 1731
Chancery, KB, CCB, Exchequer => Supreme Court of Judicature
Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Middle Temple, Inner Temple
civil law practitioners