Note 34 — Chapter III
Reading edition · Edition 2
Hale says:
"The trial by jury of twelve men was the usual trial among the Normans, in most suits; especially in assizes, et juris utrum."—1 Hale's History of the Common Law, 219.
This was in Normandy, before the conquest of England by the Normans. See Ditto, p. 218.
Crabbe says:
"It cannot be denied that the practice of submitting causes to the decision of twelve men was universal among all the northern tribes (of Europe) from the very remotest antiquity."—Crabbe's History of the English Law, p. 32.