 ... has passed into common use as a kind of ornament of speech, without any clear sense of its historical meaning. The two phrases are, indeed, intimately connected; they come from the time when the king's protection was not universal, but particular,...  The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I - Page 47by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland - 1996 - 706 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1896 - 606 pages
...represent a general royal jurisdiction. The phrase comes from a time ' when the king's protection was not universal but particular, when the king's peace was not for all men or all places. Breach of the king's peace was an act of personal disobedience, and a much graver matter than an ordinary... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - Law - 1911 - 474 pages
...represent a general royal jurisdiction. The phrase comes from a time '' when the king's protection was not universal but particular, when the king's peace was not for all men or all places. Breach of the king's peace was an act of personal disobedience, and a much graver matter than an ordinary... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1320 pages
...phrases are, indeed, intimately connected; they come from the time when the king's protection was not universal, but particular, when the king's peace was...peace was an act of personal disobedience, and a much greater matter than an ordinary breach of public order; it made the wrongdoer the king's enemy." Vol.... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - Drainage - 1913 - 334 pages
...intimately connected with " the King's Peace." " They come from the time when the King's protection was not universal but particular, when the King's Peace was...King's Highway was in a special manner protected by it " (ibii!.). The extension of the King's Peace to all travellers on the four great through roads seems... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - Drainage - 1913 - 320 pages
...intimately connected with " the King's Peace." "They come from the time when the King's protection was not universal but particular, when the King's Peace was...all places, and the King's Highway was in a special 1 manner protected by it " (ibid.). The extension of the King's Peace to all travellers on the four... | |
 | Torsten Hilding Svartengren - English language - 1918 - 566 pages
...are indeed intimately connected; they come from the time when the king's protection was by no means universal but particular, when the king's peace was...highway was in a special manner protected by it." Pollock, 1895, NED. You know you are as safe as a cow tied to a wall behind that table. White, BT,... | |
 | Law - 1918 - 854 pages
...wholeness and soundness within the area whatever its size might be. But breach of the King's peace was a much graver matter than an ordinary breach of public order. It made the wrong-doer the King's enemy. After the Norman Conquest the King's peace became the normal and general safeguard of public order.... | |
 | Alfred H. Knight - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...declared a breach of the King's Peace had its good and bad points. It made it, according to Maitland, "an act of personal disobedience, and a much graver matter, than an ordinary breach of the peace."4 On the other hand, the king's justice was less brutal than that of, say, the barons of... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 976 pages
...phrases are indeed, intimately connected; they come from the time when the king's protection was not universal but particular, when the king's peace was...personal disobedience, and a much graver matter than the ordinary breach of public order; it made the wrong doer the king's enemy." (I, 44). And, in speaking... | |
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