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... hold the su preme power themselves , and employ it in making the laws , and in executing them by officers of their own appoint- ment . Under all these forms of government , when right- eously administered , freedom and happiness may be ...
... hold the su preme power themselves , and employ it in making the laws , and in executing them by officers of their own appoint- ment . Under all these forms of government , when right- eously administered , freedom and happiness may be ...
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... hold- eth the same court in several places , to inquire of all offences perpetrated against the common law . That court was held twice in the year . The other court was called the County \ Court , which exercised jurisdiction in civil ...
... hold- eth the same court in several places , to inquire of all offences perpetrated against the common law . That court was held twice in the year . The other court was called the County \ Court , which exercised jurisdiction in civil ...
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... hold that it was first introduced into England by the Conqueror . It was the most impor- tant of all the changes introduced by William ; and it has greatly influenced the formation of our present system of government . From it flowed ...
... hold that it was first introduced into England by the Conqueror . It was the most impor- tant of all the changes introduced by William ; and it has greatly influenced the formation of our present system of government . From it flowed ...
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... hold their lands directly or indirectly ( in feudal phrase , mediately or immediately ) of the king . The Conqueror , on his first division of the land amongst his fol- lowers , did not grant it on feudal tenure : it was , at first ...
... hold their lands directly or indirectly ( in feudal phrase , mediately or immediately ) of the king . The Conqueror , on his first division of the land amongst his fol- lowers , did not grant it on feudal tenure : it was , at first ...
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... hold of you . " The king then kissed the vassal on the cheek , and the vassal took the oath of fealty . " Hear this , my lord , I will be faithful and loyal to you , and will bear to you faith for the tenements I hold of you ; and will ...
... hold of you . " The king then kissed the vassal on the cheek , and the vassal took the oath of fealty . " Hear this , my lord , I will be faithful and loyal to you , and will bear to you faith for the tenements I hold of you ; and will ...
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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.