WH Unit 1 Vocab

A system of law based on tradition, precedent, and custom. When law courts interpret common law, they do so with regard to these characteristics.

• Common Law System

• Magna Carta

• Parliament

• jury

A group of people sworn to abide by the laws to determine the truth

• jury

• Parliament

• lay investiture

• Holy Land

a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges. King John Signed...

• Magna Carta

• Habeas Corpus Act, 1679

• lay investiture

• Inquisition

the right of every citizen against arbitrary action by national or state governments

• due process of law

• Common Law System

• illumination

• Vernacular

Characterized by pointed arches, high ceilings, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows

• Gothic Architecture

• illumination

• Inflation

• lay investiture

British law had traditionally provided a procedure that allowed a person who had been arrested to challenge the legality of his arrest or confinement, called the Writ of Habeus Corpus, or the Great Writ. The Act imposed strict penalties on judges who refused to issue a writ of habeus corpus when there was good cause, and on officers who refused to comply with the writ.

• Habeas Corpus Act, 1679

• Crusades (1095-1291)

• lay investiture

• Reconquista

Britain's law-making assembly

• Parliament

• lay investiture

• Scholasticism

• Reconquista

Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806.

• Holy Roman Empire

• Crusades (1095-1291)

• Holy Land

• Reconquista

A ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials

• lay investiture

• Holy Land

• due process of law

• Vernacular

Series of wars and pilgrimages with the goals of retaking the Holy Land for Christians; originally called in 1095 by Pope Urban II after a request from the Emperor of Byzantine and the Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox church

• Crusades (1095-1291)

• Holy Roman Empire

• Holy Land

• Reconquista