His Grace the Steward and Trial of Peers: A Novel Inquiry Into a Special Branch of Constitutional Government Founded Entirely Upon Original Sources of Information, and Extensively Upon Hitherto Unprinted Materials

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1907 - 500 pages
 

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Page 217 - No freeman shall be arrested or detained in prison, or deprived of his freehold, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way molested, and we will not set forth against him, nor send against him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land.
Page 216 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 215 - Comites et barones non amercientur nisi per pares suos, et non nisi secundum modum delicti.
Page 213 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae.
Page 152 - HERNIE acohiepiscopis episcopis abbatibus prioribus ducibus comitibus baronibus justiciariis vicecomitibus prepositis ministris et omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis salutem.
Page 237 - Ricardum regem fratrem nostrum quae in manu nostra habemus vel quae alii tenent quae nos oporteat warantizare respectum habebimus usque ad communem terminum cruce-signatorum...
Page 217 - No freeman" (says the twenty-ninth chapter of Henry III.'s charter, which, as the existing law, I quote in preference to that of John, the variations not being very material) " 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 send upon him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 237 - ... tantum ad hoc faciendum electi et jurati substituantur. 56. Si nos dissaisivimus vel elongavimus Walenses de terris vel libertatibus vel rebus aliis, sine legali judicio parium suorum, in Anglia vel in "Wallia, eis statim reddantur ; et si contentio super hoc orta fuerit, tune inde fiat in marchia per judicium parium suorum, de tenementis Angliae secundum legem Angliae, de tenementis Walliae secundum legem Walliae, de tenementis marchiae secundum legem marchiae.
Page 237 - ... disseisitus fuerit vel elongatus sine legali judicio parium suorum per Henricum regem patrem nostrum vel per Ricardum regem fratrem nostrum...
Page 239 - ... per aliquod breve tempus, propter communem utilitatem regni, exceptis imprisonatis et utlagatis secundum legem regni, et gente de terra contra nos gwerrina, et mercatoribus de quibus fiat sicut praedictum est.

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