Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King JohnJ. Maclehose and sons, 1914 - 530 pages |
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Page 211 - ... another.* 9. Neither we nor our bailiffs shall seize any land or rent for any debt, so long as the chattels of the debtor...
Page 238 - ... of the summons. And when the summons has thus been made, the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the counsel of such as are present, although not all who were summoned have come.
Page 244 - SHALL PROCEED ON THE DAY APPOINTED, ACCORDING TO THE ADVICE OF SUCH AS SHALL BE PRESENT, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT WERE SUMMONED COME NOT.
Page 231 - 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 435 - Given by our hand in the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign.
Page xv - I refused to do fealty, nor will I, because neither have I promised it, nor do I find that my predecessors did it to your predecessors.
Page 221 - Nullum scutagium vel auxilium ponatur in regno nostro, nisi per commune consilium regni nostri, nisi ad corpus nostrum redimendum, et primogenitum filium nostrum militem faciendum, et ad filiam nostram primogenitam semel maritandam, et ad haec non fiat nisi rationabile auxilium : simili modo fiat de auxiliis de civitate Londoniarum.
Page 274 - Liber homo non amercietur pro parvo delicto, nisi secundum modum delicti; et pro magno delicto amercietur secundum magnitudinem delicti, salvo contenemento suo...
Page 415 - ... act towards our other barons of England, unless it ought to be otherwise, according to the charters which we hold from William, his father, the former King of the Scots. And this shall be done through judgment of his peers in our court.
Page 292 - Banks shall be defended from henceforth, but such as were in defence in the time of King Henry our Grandfather, by the same places, and the same bounds, as they were wont to be in his time.