The Magna Charta and Other Great Charters of England: With an Historical Treatise and Copious Explanatory NotesCampbell, 1899 - 364 páginas |
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... existence of Hengist and Horsa is denied ; some saying that the names themselves are different forms of the same word , meaning horse . Of this period it is really hard to tell what to accept and what to refuse . The ancient chroniclers ...
... existence of Hengist and Horsa is denied ; some saying that the names themselves are different forms of the same word , meaning horse . Of this period it is really hard to tell what to accept and what to refuse . The ancient chroniclers ...
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... existence , which he enforced obedience to . But such laws as he is accredited with , it would seem to me were rather his administration in a good , wholesome and common sense way of the custom or common law of the land as it had always ...
... existence , which he enforced obedience to . But such laws as he is accredited with , it would seem to me were rather his administration in a good , wholesome and common sense way of the custom or common law of the land as it had always ...
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... existence . Just when , and the causes that led up to it , cannot be ascertained with any degree of absolute certainty . The Chroniclers do not speak of it , and the little that we can learn of it is not sufficient to more than form the ...
... existence . Just when , and the causes that led up to it , cannot be ascertained with any degree of absolute certainty . The Chroniclers do not speak of it , and the little that we can learn of it is not sufficient to more than form the ...
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... existence ; some depart- ing from their native country into exile , " breathed forth their exhausted spirits in " the midst of the journey . ( ( 66 ( ( ' It was dreadful to behold human corpses , rotting in the houses , streets and high ...
... existence ; some depart- ing from their native country into exile , " breathed forth their exhausted spirits in " the midst of the journey . ( ( 66 ( ( ' It was dreadful to behold human corpses , rotting in the houses , streets and high ...
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... existence . They might not have been perfectly familiar with its contents in detail , but they must have known of it and its general nature . There were so many of them distributed that all could not have been lost . Here it was , then ...
... existence . They might not have been perfectly familiar with its contents in detail , but they must have known of it and its general nature . There were so many of them distributed that all could not have been lost . Here it was , then ...
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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.