The Textbook of the Constitution: Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights |
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... manner answer to us as aforesaid . 5. But the keeper , so long as he shall have the custody of the land , shall keep up the houses , parks , warrens , ponds , mills , and other things pertaining to the land , out of the issues of the ...
... manner answer to us as aforesaid . 5. But the keeper , so long as he shall have the custody of the land , shall keep up the houses , parks , warrens , ponds , mills , and other things pertaining to the land , out of the issues of the ...
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... manner : We , or if we should be out of the realm , our chief justiciary , shall send two justiciaries through every ... manner of the fault ; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it , saving to him his contenement ; and ...
... manner : We , or if we should be out of the realm , our chief justiciary , shall send two justiciaries through every ... manner of the fault ; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it , saving to him his contenement ; and ...
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... manner as the baron held it . 44 . Those men who dwell without the forest , from henceforth shall not come before our justiciaries of the forest , upon common summons , but such as are impleaded , or are pledges for any that are ...
... manner as the baron held it . 44 . Those men who dwell without the forest , from henceforth shall not come before our justiciaries of the forest , upon common summons , but such as are impleaded , or are pledges for any that are ...
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... manner as we have hitherto enjoyed those wardships , by reason of a fee held of us by knight's service ; and for the abbeys founded in any other fee than our own , in which the lord of the fee says he has a right ; and when we return ...
... manner as we have hitherto enjoyed those wardships , by reason of a fee held of us by knight's service ; and for the abbeys founded in any other fee than our own , in which the lord of the fee says he has a right ; and when we return ...
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... manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England ; unless by the Charters which we have from his father , William , late King of Scots , it ought to be otherwise ; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in ...
... manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England ; unless by the Charters which we have from his father , William , late King of Scots , it ought to be otherwise ; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in ...
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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...