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and of darrein presentment gave more specific relief. The most popular one became the assize of novel disseisin, which in Law French meant something close to the "assize of recent dispossession". Those who had been recently put out of their lands could recover the beneficial use of them by resorting to this assize, which led to a then-innovative method of trial. Twelve "of the more lawful men" of the locality were summoned by the king's sheriff to determine,

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