The boys have no special persons to perform special duties; that is, no court officers.

Neither, at first, did those old Saxons.
Secondly, in the boy-court the _facts_ in the case are brought out by means of _witnesses_.

So it was in the Folk-moot, and so it is in most civilized countries today.

Among those old Saxons the custom grew up of allowing the facts in the case to be determined by _twelve_ men of the neighborhood, _who were most intimately acquainted with those facts_.

When they came over to England these Saxons brought this custom with them, and from it has been developed the Trial by Jury.