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... menaced with confiscation of their fief , their right of coining money disputed , their jurisdiction impaired by appeals to the Parliament of Paris . However , they stood boldly upon their right , and FRANCE . C9 AFFAIRS OF BRITTANY .
... menaced with confiscation of their fief , their right of coining money disputed , their jurisdiction impaired by appeals to the Parliament of Paris . However , they stood boldly upon their right , and FRANCE . C9 AFFAIRS OF BRITTANY .
Page 96
... Jurisdiction in France . Its earliest Stage under the first Race of Kings , and Charlemague . § 23. Territorial Jurisdiction . Feudal Courts of Justice . § 24. Trial by Combat . § 25. Code of St. Louis . § 26. The territorial Jurisdictions ...
... Jurisdiction in France . Its earliest Stage under the first Race of Kings , and Charlemague . § 23. Territorial Jurisdiction . Feudal Courts of Justice . § 24. Trial by Combat . § 25. Code of St. Louis . § 26. The territorial Jurisdictions ...
Page 101
... jurisdiction , and had the right of carrying their own banner into the field . To these corresponded the Valvas- sores majores and Capitanei of the Empire . In a subordi nate class were the vassals of this high nobility , who , upon the ...
... jurisdiction , and had the right of carrying their own banner into the field . To these corresponded the Valvas- sores majores and Capitanei of the Empire . In a subordi nate class were the vassals of this high nobility , who , upon the ...
Page 102
... jurisdiction , main- tained the same authority , as the lay lords among whom they dwelt . Military service does not appear to have been reserved in the beneficiary grants made to cathedrals and monasteries . But when other vassals of ...
... jurisdiction , main- tained the same authority , as the lay lords among whom they dwelt . Military service does not appear to have been reserved in the beneficiary grants made to cathedrals and monasteries . But when other vassals of ...
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... jurisdiction of the Parliament of Besançon the peasants were attached to the soil , not being capable of leaving it without the lord's consent ; and that in some places he even inherited their goods in exclusion of the kindred . I ...
... jurisdiction of the Parliament of Besançon the peasants were attached to the soil , not being capable of leaving it without the lord's consent ; and that in some places he even inherited their goods in exclusion of the kindred . I ...
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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.