The Magna Charta and Other Great Charters of England: With an Historical Treatise and Copious Explanatory NotesCampbell, 1899 - 364 páginas |
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... Charter itself ? To the time of the granting of this won- derful statute , the people of England had no other rights than custom , and such additional privileges as the kings in their own peculiar way saw fit from time to time to grant ...
... Charter itself ? To the time of the granting of this won- derful statute , the people of England had no other rights than custom , and such additional privileges as the kings in their own peculiar way saw fit from time to time to grant ...
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... charter . That instru- ment was the result , of pressure , and very great pressure , the most severe , perhaps , that was ever inflicted upon an English king . His struggles against its granting were very long and severe , and it is ...
... charter . That instru- ment was the result , of pressure , and very great pressure , the most severe , perhaps , that was ever inflicted upon an English king . His struggles against its granting were very long and severe , and it is ...
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... charter for our fundamental law ; from that time back we must rely solely upon custom , and what that was is only con- jectural . Never was . it written down defi- nitely , and so set out that it could be handed to us as codified law ...
... charter for our fundamental law ; from that time back we must rely solely upon custom , and what that was is only con- jectural . Never was . it written down defi- nitely , and so set out that it could be handed to us as codified law ...
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... charter without setting out in some measure the conditions giving rise to the times , would not accomplish the pur- pose of any work upon the Magna Charta . A short account of the early history of England showing the causes that in them ...
... charter without setting out in some measure the conditions giving rise to the times , would not accomplish the pur- pose of any work upon the Magna Charta . A short account of the early history of England showing the causes that in them ...
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... charter from John was , of course , the final act of the whole history of England preceding it , but in order to understand intelligently the charter , and how it was obtained , will not compel a studied review of the details of history ...
... charter from John was , of course , the final act of the whole history of England preceding it , but in order to understand intelligently the charter , and how it was obtained , will not compel a studied review of the details of history ...
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Página 228 - Realm, by advice of our venerable Fathers, STEPHEN, Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church...
Página 263 - No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed, nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land. XL. To none will we sell, to none will we deny, to none will we delay right or justice.
Página 240 - It shall be lawful, for the time to come, for any one to go out of our kingdom, and return safely and securely, by land or by water...
Página 237 - ... us, all the chattels shall go to the use of the dead, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. 27. If any freeman shall die intestate, his chattels shall be distributed by the hands of his nearest relations and friends, by view of the church; saving to every one his debts which the deceased owed to him.
Página 234 - ... we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters. And furthermore we shall cause to be summoned generally by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold of us in chief...
Página 229 - FitzHugh, and others, our liegemen, have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present Charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever: — 1.
Página 278 - It shall not be lawful from henceforth to any to give his lands to any religious house, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house. Nor shall it be lawful to any house of religion to take the lands of any, and to lease the same to him of whom he received it: if any from henceforth give his lands to any religious house, and thereupon be convict, the gift shall be utterly void, and the land shall accrue to the lord of the fee.
Página 221 - Jews, more or less, and die before the debt be satisfied, there shall be no interest paid for that debt, so long as the heir is under age.
Página 259 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.