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... borough court , had forced the townsmen to renounce it and take their cases to his manorial court . Some of these extinct and dormant boroughs were revived by the industrial revolution , but at the present day seven have no higher rank ...
... borough court , had forced the townsmen to renounce it and take their cases to his manorial court . Some of these extinct and dormant boroughs were revived by the industrial revolution , but at the present day seven have no higher rank ...
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... boroughs just at the time when the royal judges were developing the common law outside them . Among the peculiarities of borough law which resulted , the most striking was the not uncommon , though often restricted , right of bequest of ...
... boroughs just at the time when the royal judges were developing the common law outside them . Among the peculiarities of borough law which resulted , the most striking was the not uncommon , though often restricted , right of bequest of ...
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... boroughs in the wider sense were also comprised . Indeed the sheriffs in 1275 drew the borough line so high as to exclude even Shaftesbury , which had appeared in Domesday Book as a borough . This is only comprehensible when it is ...
... boroughs in the wider sense were also comprised . Indeed the sheriffs in 1275 drew the borough line so high as to exclude even Shaftesbury , which had appeared in Domesday Book as a borough . This is only comprehensible when it is ...
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