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... matter as in period , would not be best presented to students in treatises exclusively devoted to separate branches of the general history . Of these the foundation would be , as the most essential and practical , the Constitution and ...
... matter as in period , would not be best presented to students in treatises exclusively devoted to separate branches of the general history . Of these the foundation would be , as the most essential and practical , the Constitution and ...
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... matters of inferior moment the chiefs decided ; but important ques- tions were reserved for the whole community , where all had a voice . The general assembly was summoned at stated periods ; but their passion for liberty disdained ...
... matters of inferior moment the chiefs decided ; but important ques- tions were reserved for the whole community , where all had a voice . The general assembly was summoned at stated periods ; but their passion for liberty disdained ...
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... matters , or those against the king's peace . The sheriff appears to have 1 Palgrave's Commonwealth , chapters v . and vii . , passim . * Sir Edward Coke says that Alfred restored them ( Co. Litt . 168 ) . 3 Sir H. Spelman on Feuds ...
... matters , or those against the king's peace . The sheriff appears to have 1 Palgrave's Commonwealth , chapters v . and vii . , passim . * Sir Edward Coke says that Alfred restored them ( Co. Litt . 168 ) . 3 Sir H. Spelman on Feuds ...
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... matter shall be decided by the five - and - twenty barons hereafter mentioned for the preservation of the peace . 59. No man shall be taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman , for the death of any other man than her hus- band ...
... matter shall be decided by the five - and - twenty barons hereafter mentioned for the preservation of the peace . 59. No man shall be taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman , for the death of any other man than her hus- band ...
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... matters that have little bearing on our modern constitution , but which so far as they appear to be interesting , will be hereafter noticed . There is no further evidence in the statute - book that Magna Charta continued to be ...
... matters that have little bearing on our modern constitution , but which so far as they appear to be interesting , will be hereafter noticed . There is no further evidence in the statute - book that Magna Charta continued to be ...
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Page 444 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 444 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 118 - No freeman (says the 29th chapter of Henry III.7s charter, which, as the existing law, I quote in preference to that of John, the variations not being very material) shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or. any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.* We will sell to no man, we will not deny, or delay to any man justice or...
Page 60 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 482 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 287 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 285 - And whereas no offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the laws and statutes of this your realm, nevertheless of late time divers commissions under your Majesty's Great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land according to the justice of martial law...
Page 429 - By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court, called the court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes.
Page 239 - And the like power have Kings: they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life and of death: Judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.
Page 430 - By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace, without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.