The Textbook of the Constitution: Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights |
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... court of justice in the kingdom , and that court had cognizance both of civil and spiritual causes , viz . , the wittenagemote or general council , which assembled annually , or oftener , wherever the king kept his Christmas , Easter ...
... court of justice in the kingdom , and that court had cognizance both of civil and spiritual causes , viz . , the wittenagemote or general council , which assembled annually , or oftener , wherever the king kept his Christmas , Easter ...
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... court . 35. There shall be one measure of wine and one of ale , through our whole realm ; and one measure of corn ... courts for any atrocious personal injury inflicted by him upon his villein , which was the sole protection which the ...
... court . 35. There shall be one measure of wine and one of ale , through our whole realm ; and one measure of corn ... courts for any atrocious personal injury inflicted by him upon his villein , which was the sole protection which the ...
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... court of an injustice done by an inferior one , which is the general use of the word ; but it here means an original suit at the time of its first commence- ment . An appeal , therefore , when spoken of as a criminal prosecution ...
... court of an injustice done by an inferior one , which is the general use of the word ; but it here means an original suit at the time of its first commence- ment . An appeal , therefore , when spoken of as a criminal prosecution ...
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... court . 60. All the aforesaid customs and liberties , which we have granted to be holden in our kingdom , as much as it belongs to us , towards our people of our kingdom , as well clergy as laity shall observe , as far as they are ...
... court . 60. All the aforesaid customs and liberties , which we have granted to be holden in our kingdom , as much as it belongs to us , towards our people of our kingdom , as well clergy as laity shall observe , as far as they are ...
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... Court , and to see that its ordinances were fully observed within their several jurisdictions . In the next year , after the French Dauphin had been driven out of the kingdom , and the malcontent English who had fought under him had ...
... Court , and to see that its ordinances were fully observed within their several jurisdictions . In the next year , after the French Dauphin had been driven out of the kingdom , and the malcontent English who had fought under him had ...
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Page 44 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 25 - 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 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 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 38 - ... certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law.
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 44 - Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance so far advanced by him, and will still preserve them from the violation of their rights, which they have here asserted, and from all other attempts upon their religion, rights, a.nd liberties: II.
Page 8 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Page 11 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 46 - Crown, and for preserving a certainty in the succession thereof, in and upon which the unity, peace, tranquillity, and safety of this nation doth, under God, wholly consist and depend, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted, established, and declared, that the Crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions, with all and singular the premises...