Neighbors, Courts, and Kings: Reflections on Michael Macnair's Vicini
Patrick Wormald
Mike Macnair's deeply learned and profoundly subtle article establishes to the more or less total satisfaction of this respondent that origins “jury” procedure lie in testimonial rather than adjudicatory action: witnessing by knowledgeable neighbors as opposed “judgment-finding” local experts. But then he is my case—and perhaps a greater extent himself realizes—preaching converted.
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