Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, Y 200, fol. 69r
Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council

Fourth Lateran Council 1215

c.8 Qualiter et quando rules for conducting an "inquisitio" = 4 Comp. 5.1.4
c.18: Sententiam sanguinis, Clerics may not participate in ordeal = 4 Comp. 3.19.2
c.35: Vt debitus, rules for appeals = 4 Comp. 2.12.3
c.36: Cum cessante causa, no appeals from interlocutory decisions = 4 Comp. 2.12.4
c.37: Nonnulli gratia, No summons of witnesses more than two days = 4 Comp. 1.2.5

c.38:Quoniam contra falsam, all proceedings recorded in writing = 4 Comp. 2.6.3 c.48:Cum speciali sit, Recusing a judge = 4 Comp. 2.12.5

Magna carta 1215

<38>Nullus ballivus: Good witnesses provide evidence.

<39> Nullus liber homo: The lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

<40>Nulli vendemus: We will not deny or delay right or justice.

Pennington, “The Fourth Lateran Council, its Legislation, and the Development of Legal Procedure,” Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue, edd. John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, Anna di Robilant (Robbins Collection, University of California Berkeley 2016) 179-198

Pennington “Reform in 1215: Magna Carta and the Fourth Lateran Council,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 32 (2015) 99-127.