Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to the Great Charter, Volume 1

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Page 121 - maintain and secure the right of the whole people as against themselves as well as against their master ; clause by clause, the rights of the commons are provided for as well as the rights of the nobles The Great Charter is the first great public act of the nation after it has realised its own identity.
Page 96 - Ne scutagium vel auxilium ponatur in regno, nisi per commune consilium regni, nisi ad corpus régis redimendum, et primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, et filiam suam primogenitam semel maritandam ; et ad hoc fiat rationabile auxilium. Simili modo fiat de taillagiis et auxiliis de civitate London, et de aliis civitatibus
Page 91 - officer, as well as that of the communa itself, is French. That the incorporation under this form was held to imply very considerable municipal independence may be inferred from the fact that one of the charges brought by William Fitz-Osbert against Richard Fitz-Osbert, was that he had not forbidden the saying : quodcunque eat
Page 137 - And yet with all its faults this document becomes, and rightly becomes, a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable, ' fundamental statute ' that England has ever had. For in brief it means this, that the king is and shall be below the law.
Page 95 - Et civitas London, habeat omnes antiquas libertates et liberas consuetudines suas, tarn per terras quam per aquas. Preterea volumus et concedimus quod omnes alie civitates et burgi et ville et portus habeant omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines suas.
Page 95 - eisdem baronibus nostris et carta nostra confirmavimus quod habeant bene et in pace, libere, quiete et integre, omnes libertates suas quibus hactenus usi sunt, tam in civitate Londoniarum quam extra, et tam in aquis quam in terris, et omnibus aliis locis, salva nobis chamberlengeria nostra.
Page 95 - regni nostri, nisi ad corpus nostrum redimendum, et primogenitum filium nostrum militem faciendum, et ad filiam nostram primogenitam semel maritandam, et ad hec non fiat nisi racionabile auxilium ; simili modo fiat de auxiliis de civitate London.
Page 122 - It has been lately the fashion to depreciate the value of Magna Carta, as if it had sprung from the private ambition of a few selfish barons, and redressed only some feudal abuses
Page 90 - universi regni magnates et ipsi etiam ipsius provinciae episcopi jurare coguntur. Nunc primum in indulta sibi conjuratione regno regem deesse cognovit Londonia, quam nee rex ipse Bicardus, nee praedecessor et pater ejus Henricus pro mille millibus

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