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Page vii
... further divided into three parts . The first of these treats of the primitive institutions out of which our polity has sprung , and their develop- ment in the political and social condition of the people , and in our forms of local ...
... further divided into three parts . The first of these treats of the primitive institutions out of which our polity has sprung , and their develop- ment in the political and social condition of the people , and in our forms of local ...
Page ix
... further information for himself from those more ample sources . To assist him in doing so , a list is given of some of the standard books on the different periods of our constitutional history . Should he desire to extend his researches ...
... further information for himself from those more ample sources . To assist him in doing so , a list is given of some of the standard books on the different periods of our constitutional history . Should he desire to extend his researches ...
Page 9
... further entitled from the heirs of his tenants to primer seisin , or the first year's profits of the estate . And if a tenant died without heirs the land was liable to escheat or return to the lord . This might occur in two ways : first ...
... further entitled from the heirs of his tenants to primer seisin , or the first year's profits of the estate . And if a tenant died without heirs the land was liable to escheat or return to the lord . This might occur in two ways : first ...
Page 15
... Further , offences com- mitted by them , and matters affecting them were tried , not in the civil courts and by the law of the land , but in the ecclesiastical courts and according to the foreign canon law . The abuses arising from this ...
... Further , offences com- mitted by them , and matters affecting them were tried , not in the civil courts and by the law of the land , but in the ecclesiastical courts and according to the foreign canon law . The abuses arising from this ...
Page 25
... Further , the increase of commerce and of moveable property created a wealthy and influential class within the kingdom , who were wholly without the pale of feudal institutions , and the existence of this class could not fail to weaken ...
... Further , the increase of commerce and of moveable property created a wealthy and influential class within the kingdom , who were wholly without the pale of feudal institutions , and the existence of this class could not fail to weaken ...
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Page 282 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
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Page 277 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...