Excerpt from The Trial by Jury, Vol. 2: For Use in Harvard Law School These four distinctions have been made, not because they embrace all possible forms of which a popular tribunal is capable, but because they correspond with those actually exhibited at different periods of our legal history, and also because they are necessary, in order the more easily to point out the changes which have occurred in that history, and corresponding with it in order of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.