In other words, it can be said that the Magna Carta specifically addressed the relevant issues of the day, and within the document, there are no statements of 'fundamental principles' which are present in the 'US Declaration of Independence' or the 'French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen'. 5.

             It must be mentioned here that as far as the future generations of man was concerned, it was the Clause number 39 of the Magna Carta that would be the most important and the most relevant principle ever, and this stated that everyone would have a 'right to trial by jury', whereby it declared, "No man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." In addition, the Clause number Forty also declared, "To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice". 6.

             During the middle Ages, law and theology were in fact becoming known as 'higher degree' subjects, and this was also the time when the doctrine of the Church was starting to develop. 7 Law in the Middle Ages however had not yet been developed to such an extent that justice as one knows it today would have been awarded. The types of trials that existed at that time were 'trial by ordeal', 'trial by battle', and the types of courts that existed at that time were Church Courts, Manor Courts, and Royal Courts. The trial by ordeal was when the innocence of a person would be put to the test by putting him in great difficulties, like for example, making him swallow poison, pulling an object from boiling hot oil, walking over nine red hot ploughs, and other such cruelties, which, if the person was able to overcome, would automatically prove his innocence of the crime that he was being accused of.