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As with the Saxon system, these men were charged with uncovering the facts of the case on their own rather than listening to arguments in court.
Under the assize, a jury of free men was charged with reporting any crimes that they knew of in their hundred to a " justice in eyre ," a judge who moved between hundreds on a circuit.
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