A Translation of GlanvilleA treatise on the laws and customs of the kingdom of England. |
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A Translation of Glanville: To Which Are Added Notes Ranulf De Glanville,John Beames No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 181 - The King to the Archbishop : Health. — IV. appearing before me in my Court, has demanded against R., his brother, certain land, and in •which the said R . has no right, as W. says, because he is a bastard born before the marriage of their mother; and since it does not belong to my Court to inquire concerning bastardy, I send these unto you, commanding you that you do, in the Court Christian, that which belongs to you ; and when the suit is brought to its proper end before you, inform me by your...
Page 327 - J. shall make you secure of prosecuting his claim then summon by good summoners twelve free and lawful men of the neighbourhood of such a vill, that they be before me or my justices on such a day prepared on their oath to return if J.
Page xxxviii - I mean those laws which it is evident were promuulgated by the advice of the nobles and the authority of the prince, concerning doubts to be settled in their assembly.
Page 182 - Roman laws consider such son as the lawful heir, yet, according to the law and custom of this realm, he shall in no measure be supported as heir in his claim upon the inheritance, nor can he demand the inheritance by the law of the realm. But yet, if a question should arise whether such son was begotten or born before marriage or after, it should, as we have observed, be discussed before the ecclesiastical Judge, and of his decision he shall inform the King or his justices ; and thus, according to...
Page 197 - This is a final concord made in the court of our lord the king, at Westminster, on the vigil of the blessed Peter the apostle, in the thirty-third year of the reign of Henry II.
Page 54 - This assise, indeed, allows not so many essoins as the duel, as will be seen in the sequel; and by this course of proceeding both the labor of men and the expenses of the poor are saved. Besides, by so much as the testimony of many credible witnesses in judicial proceedings preponderates over that of one only, by so much greater equity is this institution regulated than that of the duel.
Page 6 - The King to the Sheriff, Health. Command A. that, without delay, he render to B. one Hyde of Land, in such a Vill, of which the said B. complains, that the aforesaid A.
Page 54 - Assise is a certain royal benefit bestowed upon the people, and emanating from the clemency of the prince, with the advice of his nobles. So effectually does this proceeding preserve the lives and civil condition of Men, that every one may now possess his right in safety, at the time that he avoids the doubtful event of the Duel.
Page xxxix - For, if from the mere want of writing only, they should not be considered as Laws, then, unquestionably, writing would seem to confer more authority upon Laws themselves, than either the Equity of the persons constituting, or the reason of those framing them.
Page xxxiii - Having stated this as the limit of his plan, the author very rarely travels out of it. Glanville's treatise consists of fourteen books ; the first two of which treat of a writ of right, when commenced originally in the curia regis, and carry the reader through all the stages of it, from the summons...