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... estates , as well in Palestine as throughout Europe , enriched the two former institutions ; but the pride , rapaciousness , and misconduct of both , espe- cially of the Templars , seem to have balanced the advantages derived from their ...
... estates , as well in Palestine as throughout Europe , enriched the two former institutions ; but the pride , rapaciousness , and misconduct of both , espe- cially of the Templars , seem to have balanced the advantages derived from their ...
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... estates in taxes , rather than fall under the power of England . John with heaviness of heart persuaded these faithful people to comply with that destiny which he had not been able to surmount . At length they sullenly submitted : we ...
... estates in taxes , rather than fall under the power of England . John with heaviness of heart persuaded these faithful people to comply with that destiny which he had not been able to surmount . At length they sullenly submitted : we ...
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... estate . The Vandals in Africa , a more furious race of plunderers , seized all the best lands . The Lombards of ... estates possessed by the Franks as their proper ty were termed allodial ; a word which is sometimes re- stricted to ...
... estate . The Vandals in Africa , a more furious race of plunderers , seized all the best lands . The Lombards of ... estates possessed by the Franks as their proper ty were termed allodial ; a word which is sometimes re- stricted to ...
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... estates of their own , yet there was another , called tributary , who seem to have cultivated those of the Franks , and were scarcely raised above the condition of predial servitude . But no distinction can be more un- equivocal than ...
... estates of their own , yet there was another , called tributary , who seem to have cultivated those of the Franks , and were scarcely raised above the condition of predial servitude . But no distinction can be more un- equivocal than ...
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... estates , and this had been greatly increased by the common changes of property , by the rapine of those savage times , and by royal munificence . Thus arose that landed aristocracy which became the most striking feature in the ...
... estates , and this had been greatly increased by the common changes of property , by the rapine of those savage times , and by royal munificence . Thus arose that landed aristocracy which became the most striking feature in the ...
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Page 443 - Moreover, we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Page 518 - As the head of a body natural cannot change its nerves and sinews, cannot deny to the several parts their proper energy, their due proportion and aliment of blood; neither can a king, who is the head of a body politic, change the laws thereof, nor take from the people what is theirs, by right, against their consent.
Page 456 - But in the very second year of the son's reign they granted the twenty-fifth penny of their goods, '• upon this condition, that the king should take advice and grant redress upon certain articles wherein they are aggrieved.
Page 424 - Whether courts of justice framed the writ of Habeas Corpus in conformity to the spirit of this clause, or found it already in their register, it became from that era the right of every subject to demand it.
Page 418 - From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it. Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor; that is, for perversion of justice, or for delay. Sometimes they were paid by opposite parties, and, of course, for opposite ends.