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... matters more or less akin to the subject of the work , has been due to a desire to compress the volume within the smallest possible limits . A glossary or explanation of some of the technical words , the meaning of which does not appear ...
... matters more or less akin to the subject of the work , has been due to a desire to compress the volume within the smallest possible limits . A glossary or explanation of some of the technical words , the meaning of which does not appear ...
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... Matters - Control of Parliament - Cabinet Council - Political Parties . 5. The Ministry - Control of Parliament - Increased Power of Executive - Personal Influence of the Sovereign- Regencies - Substitution for Royal Sign - Manual . 6 ...
... Matters - Control of Parliament - Cabinet Council - Political Parties . 5. The Ministry - Control of Parliament - Increased Power of Executive - Personal Influence of the Sovereign- Regencies - Substitution for Royal Sign - Manual . 6 ...
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... matter of less importance to the lord who his socage tenants were . We consequently find that the right of free alienation of socage lands was acquired at a comparatively early period . Villenage . - All the land which either the king ...
... matter of less importance to the lord who his socage tenants were . We consequently find that the right of free alienation of socage lands was acquired at a comparatively early period . Villenage . - All the land which either the king ...
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... 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 state of things led in Hen . 2's reign to ...
... 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 state of things led in Hen . 2's reign to ...
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... matters than were in fact accomplished . In those times the prac- tice of resorting to political means in order to produce religious changes in a nation was considered both proper and efficacious ; and no doubt in some cases it proved ...
... matters than were in fact accomplished . In those times the prac- tice of resorting to political means in order to produce religious changes in a nation was considered both proper and efficacious ; and no doubt in some cases it proved ...
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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...