Henry II's Legal Reforms
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- Henry II - Legal Reforms
- Assize of Clarendon (1166)
- Introduced empanelling of juries of presentment by sheriffs
- Standard procedures and punishments for crown pleas
- Sheriffs have access to all lands, people and courts
- Assize of Northampton (1176)
- Divided England's counties into six circuits for king's justices
- New oath of fealty required from every man
- Punishments made for lesser crimes harsher
- Arson and forgery added to crown pleas for justices
- Two new possessory legal actions developed
- Novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor
- Possessory assizes
- Dealt with land possession issues
- Possessory assizes
- Novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor
- Assize of Clarendon (1166)
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