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Page 47
... liberty and the public good . ' But the tumultu- ous scenes which passed in the capital , sometimes heighten- ed into civil war , necessarily distracted men from the com- mon defense against Edward . These tumults were excited , and the ...
... liberty and the public good . ' But the tumultu- ous scenes which passed in the capital , sometimes heighten- ed into civil war , necessarily distracted men from the com- mon defense against Edward . These tumults were excited , and the ...
Page 66
... Liberty never wore a more unamiable countenance than among these burghers , who abused the strength she gave them by cruelty and insolence . Ghent was absolutely impregnable at a time when artillery was very imperfect both in its ...
... Liberty never wore a more unamiable countenance than among these burghers , who abused the strength she gave them by cruelty and insolence . Ghent was absolutely impregnable at a time when artillery was very imperfect both in its ...
Page 73
... liberty with possession of land - the right of shift- ng his occupancy . It is not probable , from subsequent events , that the Saxons heid very tenaciously by their religion ; bit when Christianity first offered itself , it came in the ...
... liberty with possession of land - the right of shift- ng his occupancy . It is not probable , from subsequent events , that the Saxons heid very tenaciously by their religion ; bit when Christianity first offered itself , it came in the ...
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... liberty of the Franks when they first became conquerors of Gaul , we have good reason to believe that they did not long preserve it . A people not very nu- merous spread over the spacious provinces of Gaul , wherever lands were assigned ...
... liberty of the Franks when they first became conquerors of Gaul , we have good reason to believe that they did not long preserve it . A people not very nu- merous spread over the spacious provinces of Gaul , wherever lands were assigned ...
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... liberty of alienating lands to be holden of the grantor's immediate lord . The tenants of the crown were not included in this act ; but that of 1 Edward III . , c . 12 , enabled them to alienate , upon the payment of a com- position ...
... liberty of alienating lands to be holden of the grantor's immediate lord . The tenants of the crown were not included in this act ; but that of 1 Edward III . , c . 12 , enabled them to alienate , upon the payment of a com- position ...
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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.