 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 902 pages
...this 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.s... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1890 - 988 pages
...of inheritance, forsomuch 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. LIT. § 2. And if a man purchase land in fee... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - Criminal procedure - 1894 - 1062 pages
...Merton the ecclesiastics endeavored to enact the rule of their church, 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." 1 Bl. Com. 19, 456; 2 Kent, Com. 209. No change whatever was... | |
 | Alfred Heales - Surrey (England) - 1898 - 566 pages
...of 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 Realm8, which hitherto had been used and approved." Finally, when the Lords demanded the proper... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 pages
...of inheritance, forsomuch 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. LIT., § 2. And if a man purchase land in fee... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 870 pages
...to inheritance, forasmuch as the church accepteth such as legitimate. And all the Earls and Barons, with one voice, answered that they would not *change the laws of the realm which hitherto had been used and approved." It is manifest from Bracton, who lived and wrote... | |
 | Canada - 1904 - 1150 pages
...of 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 had been hitherto used and approved." There are two or three things which must strike... | |
 | John Patterson Davis - Corporations - 1905 - 316 pages
...the legitimization of bastard children by future marriage of the parents, "all the barons and earls with one voice answered, that they would not change...England, which have hitherto been used and approved. "' In 1164 Pope Alexander III. had forbidden monks to teach either medicine or the Civil law outside... | |
 | State Historical Society of Iowa - Constitutional history - 1907 - 502 pages
...the Canon Law, it is said in the Statute of Merton, (20 H. Ill, c. 9) that "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." The end of the contest between the Roman Law... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1907 - 840 pages
...to inheritance, forasmuch as the church accepteth such as legitimate. And all the earls and barons, with one voice, answered that they would not change the laws of the realm which hitherto had been used and approved." . . . It therefore appears to be the just conclusion... | |
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... all the earls and barons (says the parliament roll) (/) with one voice answered, that they would not change the laws of England, which had hitherto been used and approved. 
