Reeves' History of the English Law, from the Time of the Romans to the End of the Reign of Elizabeth [1603]: With Numerous Notes, and an Introductory Dissertation on the Nature and Use of Legal History, the Rise and Progress of Our Laws, and the Influence of the Roman Law in the Formation of Our Own, Volume 2M. Murphy, 1879 - Law |
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... Jury - Capitula Itineris - Of Læse - Majesty . Who to Judge thereof - Of Homicide - The Office of the Coroners - Imprisonment and Bail - Of Outlawry — At the King's Suit - Reversal of Outlawry — Of Murdrum - Pre- sentment of Englishery ...
... Jury - Capitula Itineris - Of Læse - Majesty . Who to Judge thereof - Of Homicide - The Office of the Coroners - Imprisonment and Bail - Of Outlawry — At the King's Suit - Reversal of Outlawry — Of Murdrum - Pre- sentment of Englishery ...
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... jury , the most effectual securities against oppression which the wisdom of man has hitherto been able to de- vise . We will sell , delay , or deny justice to no one . No man can carry further the great principle that justice is the ...
... jury , the most effectual securities against oppression which the wisdom of man has hitherto been able to de- vise . We will sell , delay , or deny justice to no one . No man can carry further the great principle that justice is the ...
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... defendant , because the wager of law was " to countervail a jury . ” 1 Bract . , fol . 116 , b . 2 Delicti . 3 Ibid . ♢ Vide vol . i . , 209 ( note ) . 3 4 ponat aliquem ad legem manifestam , nec ad 38 [ CHAP . V. HENRY III .
... defendant , because the wager of law was " to countervail a jury . ” 1 Bract . , fol . 116 , b . 2 Delicti . 3 Ibid . ♢ Vide vol . i . , 209 ( note ) . 3 4 ponat aliquem ad legem manifestam , nec ad 38 [ CHAP . V. HENRY III .
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... jury was never spoken of in these days as judicium , much less judi- cium parium . We hear of veredictum , juramentum legalium hominum , jurata vi- cineti , and the like , all expressive of some sworn truth , or of the person who swore ...
... jury was never spoken of in these days as judicium , much less judi- cium parium . We hear of veredictum , juramentum legalium hominum , jurata vi- cineti , and the like , all expressive of some sworn truth , or of the person who swore ...
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... jury , as has been habit of going with an armed force or sending an armed force on the lands or against the castles of them he knew or believed to be his enemies , without observing any form of law " ( History of England , vol . ii ...
... jury , as has been habit of going with an armed force or sending an armed force on the lands or against the castles of them he knew or believed to be his enemies , without observing any form of law " ( History of England , vol . ii ...
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Page 349 - Leicester in the summons for a parliament at this time directed " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough in the county...
Page 413 - ... any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord or slander, may grow between the King and his people, or the great men of the realm ; and he that doth so, shall be taken and kept in prison, until he hath brought him into the court, which was the first author of the tale.
Page 389 - ... prove that they were his, or perished in his keeping, within a year and a day, they shall be restored to him without delay •„ and if not, they shall remain to the king, and...
Page 18 - FIRST, we have granted to God, and by this our present Charter have confirmed for us and our heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole rights and liberties inviolable. We have granted also, and given to all the freemen of our realm, for us and our heirs for ever...
Page 27 - The king to his Justices of the Bench greeting. Where of late it was provided that religious men should not enter into the fees of any without licence and will of the chief lord of whom such fees be holden immediately...
Page 44 - It will be observed that the words are " prteci [if de capite," which latter words, added in the third chapter of Henry III., implied that the land was held of the king in chief, or otherwise the suit should first be brought in the court of the lord of whom the land was held, and hence Lord Coke...
Page 47 - ... which the lord of the fee may say that he has jurisdiction. And when we return, or if we desist from our pilgrimage, we shall straightway exhibit full justice to those complaining with regard to these matters. 54. No one shall be taken or imprisoned on account of the appeal of a woman concerning the death of another than her husband. 55. All fines imposed by us unjustly and contrary to the law of the land, and all...
Page 413 - ... to tell or publish any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord, or slander may grow between the king and his people, or the great men of the realm...
Page 386 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the king or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm ; and by authority of parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of king Edward III.
Page 325 - ... and were wont in time of the king's noble progenitors, and also in his time; but took great revenges and distresses of their neighbours, and of other, until they had amends and fines at their own pleasure; and further, some of them would not be justified by the king's officers, nor would suffer them to make delivery of such distresses as they had taken of their own authority ": IT is PROVIDED, AGREED, AND GRANTED, that all persons, as well of high as of low estate, shall...