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... practice , remained theoretically intact - Aylmer's Harborowe of True and Faithful Subjects , ' 1559 - Mr . Speaker Onslow's address to Queen Elizabeth , 1566 - Harrison's ' Description of England , ' 1577 - Hooker's ' Ecclesiastical ...
... practice , remained theoretically intact - Aylmer's Harborowe of True and Faithful Subjects , ' 1559 - Mr . Speaker Onslow's address to Queen Elizabeth , 1566 - Harrison's ' Description of England , ' 1577 - Hooker's ' Ecclesiastical ...
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... practice was continued after the introduction of writing , and long survived in our law of real property , in a modified form , as the livery of seisin , the essential part of a feoffment . Though all land , on being granted in ...
... practice was continued after the introduction of writing , and long survived in our law of real property , in a modified form , as the livery of seisin , the essential part of a feoffment . Though all land , on being granted in ...
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... practice.'1 Professor Stubbs , on the contrary , maintains that the central assembly was never formed on the model of the lower courts as the folkmoot of the whole nation , the ordinary freemen never rising higher than their respective ...
... practice.'1 Professor Stubbs , on the contrary , maintains that the central assembly was never formed on the model of the lower courts as the folkmoot of the whole nation , the ordinary freemen never rising higher than their respective ...
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... practice which continued long after the Norman Conquest as the Sheriff's Tourn , or Leet , and View of Frankpledge . From an early period certain districts within the hundred were detached from its jurisdiction and sub- jected to the ...
... practice which continued long after the Norman Conquest as the Sheriff's Tourn , or Leet , and View of Frankpledge . From an early period certain districts within the hundred were detached from its jurisdiction and sub- jected to the ...
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... practice of compurgation , ordeal , wergild , sanctity of holy places , persons , or things ; the immunity of estates belonging to churches , and the tables of penalties for crimes , in their several aspects as offences against the law ...
... practice of compurgation , ordeal , wergild , sanctity of holy places , persons , or things ; the immunity of estates belonging to churches , and the tables of penalties for crimes , in their several aspects as offences against the law ...
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Page 571 - Princess 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 569 - That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 472 - ... or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Page 703 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 568 - And whereas the said late king James the Second having abdicated the government and the throne being thereby vacant, His Highness the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal and divers principal persons of the commons...
Page 569 - ... of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid; do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare: 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the * 1689 (New Style). execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal.
Page 467 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm...
Page 568 - Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
Page 555 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm...
Page 568 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.