Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the FirstWilliam Stubbs Clarendon Press, 1870 - 531 pages |
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... Carta it divides and arranges its business into that of three courts , retaining the same staff of judges for all , and the chief justiciar at the head . Towards the end of the next reign the three courts receive each a distinct staff ...
... Carta it divides and arranges its business into that of three courts , retaining the same staff of judges for all , and the chief justiciar at the head . Towards the end of the next reign the three courts receive each a distinct staff ...
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... Carta which orders them to be elected , for the recognitions of novel disseisin , mort - dancester , and darrein presentment , by the county court , to be an explanation of earlier custom . But in the case of the coroner there is no ...
... Carta which orders them to be elected , for the recognitions of novel disseisin , mort - dancester , and darrein presentment , by the county court , to be an explanation of earlier custom . But in the case of the coroner there is no ...
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... Carta , although in form a charter , is in substance a treaty of peace - that no tax shall be exacted without a grant from the common council of the kingdom , and that that common council shall be summoned in a definite and satisfactory ...
... Carta , although in form a charter , is in substance a treaty of peace - that no tax shall be exacted without a grant from the common council of the kingdom , and that that common council shall be summoned in a definite and satisfactory ...
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... Carta . At the beginning of the thirteenth century the doctrine was gaining ground that the taxpayer should have a voice in the bestowal of the tax ; the legal position of the bene- ficed clergy had been long definitely settled , and ...
... Carta . At the beginning of the thirteenth century the doctrine was gaining ground that the taxpayer should have a voice in the bestowal of the tax ; the legal position of the bene- ficed clergy had been long definitely settled , and ...
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... Carta promises that these shall be summoned by a general writ , and through the sheriffs . The only constitu- tional mode of the sheriff's action was in the county court . Hence the minor barons , to be consulted at all , must be ...
... Carta promises that these shall be summoned by a general writ , and through the sheriffs . The only constitu- tional mode of the sheriff's action was in the county court . Hence the minor barons , to be consulted at all , must be ...
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Page 509 - 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. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 510 - I, AB, do swear, That, I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 511 - ... 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 507 - By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes; 4.
Page 508 - And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures, before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm.
Page 511 - That all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Home, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm...
Page 508 - Temporal, and diverse principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs, and cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them, as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster...
Page 510 - ... and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed, and taken to be ; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said declaration ; and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their successors according to the same in all times to come.
Page 505 - Humbly show unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, that whereas it is declared and enacted by a statute made in the time of the reign of King Edward the First, commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo...