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... privileges and those of the Church , but to style himself " King , by the grace of God and election of the people ; " which , indeed , according to the 12 See NOTE VIII . , " On the kingdom of Burgundy . " established constitution , was ...
... privileges and those of the Church , but to style himself " King , by the grace of God and election of the people ; " which , indeed , according to the 12 See NOTE VIII . , " On the kingdom of Burgundy . " established constitution , was ...
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... privileges which they already possessed . But the re- moteness of their situation , with a difference in language and legal usages , still kept the people of this province apart from those of the north of France . About the middle of ...
... privileges which they already possessed . But the re- moteness of their situation , with a difference in language and legal usages , still kept the people of this province apart from those of the north of France . About the middle of ...
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... privileges of independence were treat- ed as usurpation ; the dukes were menaced with confiscation of their fief , their right of coining money disputed , their jurisdiction impaired by appeals to the Parliament of Paris . However ...
... privileges of independence were treat- ed as usurpation ; the dukes were menaced with confiscation of their fief , their right of coining money disputed , their jurisdiction impaired by appeals to the Parliament of Paris . However ...
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... privileges in the political order , inherent in the blood of the possessor , and consequently not transferable like those which poverty confers . Limited to this sense , no- bility , I conceive , was unknown to the conquerors of Gaul ...
... privileges in the political order , inherent in the blood of the possessor , and consequently not transferable like those which poverty confers . Limited to this sense , no- bility , I conceive , was unknown to the conquerors of Gaul ...
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... privileges with their posterity ; and this link was to be supplied by hereditary benefices . § 9. Besides the lands distributed among the nation , others were reserved to the crown , partly for the support of its dig- nity , and partly ...
... privileges with their posterity ; and this link was to be supplied by hereditary benefices . § 9. Besides the lands distributed among the nation , others were reserved to the crown , partly for the support of its dig- nity , and partly ...
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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.