The Textbook of the Constitution: Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights |
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... manner answer to us as aforesaid . 5. But the keeper , so long as he shall have the custody of the land , shall keep up the houses , parks , warrens , ponds , mills , and other things pertaining to the land , out of the issues of the ...
... manner answer to us as aforesaid . 5. But the keeper , so long as he shall have the custody of the land , shall keep up the houses , parks , warrens , ponds , mills , and other things pertaining to the land , out of the issues of the ...
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... manner : We , or if we should be out of the realm , our chief justiciary , shall send two justiciaries through every ... manner of the fault ; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it , saving to him his contenement ; and ...
... manner : We , or if we should be out of the realm , our chief justiciary , shall send two justiciaries through every ... manner of the fault ; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it , saving to him his contenement ; and ...
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... manner as the baron held it . 44 . Those men who dwell without the forest , from henceforth shall not come before our justiciaries of the forest , upon common summons , but such as are impleaded , or are pledges for any that are ...
... manner as the baron held it . 44 . Those men who dwell without the forest , from henceforth shall not come before our justiciaries of the forest , upon common summons , but such as are impleaded , or are pledges for any that are ...
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... manner as we have hitherto enjoyed those wardships , by reason of a fee held of us by knight's service ; and for the abbeys founded in any other fee than our own , in which the lord of the fee says he has a right ; and when we return ...
... manner as we have hitherto enjoyed those wardships , by reason of a fee held of us by knight's service ; and for the abbeys founded in any other fee than our own , in which the lord of the fee says he has a right ; and when we return ...
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... manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England ; unless by the Charters which we have from his father , William , late King of Scots , it ought to be otherwise ; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in ...
... manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England ; unless by the Charters which we have from his father , William , late King of Scots , it ought to be otherwise ; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in ...
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Page 23 - 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 condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 46 - ... during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Page 44 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 45 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess ; and for default of such issue, to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue, to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 38 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other, the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause...
Page 44 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 43 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.
Page 43 - By causing several good subjects, being Protestants, to be disarmed, at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to law; 7.
Page 46 - ... or any part of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, or jurisdiction within the same ; and in all and every such case or cases the people of these realms shall be, and are hereby absolved of their allegiance ; and the said crown and government shall from time to time descend to, and be enjoyed by such person or persons, being Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion, or professing,...
Page 38 - Charter, and the law of the land: and by the said Great Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death; but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the...