 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...law) declared such children legitimate; but " all the earls and barons (says the parliament roll) (f) with one voice answered, that they would not change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used and approved." And we find the same jealousy prevailing above a century afterwards... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...only reason, because holy church (that is, the canon law,) declared such children legitimate ; but "all the earls and barons (says the parliament roll)...that they would not change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used and approved." And we find the same jealousy prevailing above a century afterwards... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...only reason, because holy church (that is, the canon law) declared such children legitimate : but " all the earls and barons (says the parliament roll*)...they would not " change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used '* and approved." And we find the same jealousy prevailing above a century afterwards,0... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Roman law - 1841 - 672 pages
...succession, inasmuch as the church accepteth all such aa legitimate.'' But all the earls and barons with one voice answered that they would not change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used and approved. Stat. Mert. 20 Hen. 3 Co. Litt. 245. or 2 Co. Inst. 97. pie adoption... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...law,) declared such children legitimate ; but "all the earls and barons (says the parliament-roll) (y) with one voice answered, that they would not change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used and approved. And we find the same jealousy prevailing above a century afterwards,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 922 pages
...inheritance, for as much as the church accepteth such as legiti- 1840. mate. And all the earls and barons with one voice answered, that they would not change the laws of the realm, which hitherto have been used and approved." It is manifest from Bracton, who lived and... | |
 | Hamilton Smythe - Marriage law - 1842 - 348 pages
...assimilate them in the reign of Henry the Third, that all the Earls and Barons (in the statute of Merton) with one voice answered that they would not change the laws of the realm which hitherto had been used and approved. In accordance with the opinions of the Judges,... | |
 | Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1842 - 898 pages
...] inheritance, forasmuch as the church accepteth such for legitimate. And all the earls and barons, with one voice, answered that they would not change the laws of the realm which hitherto have been used and approved (&)." Against the common Order of the Church.']... | |
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