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Outlines of English Constitutional History for the Use of Students B. C. Skottowe No preview available - 2017 |
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allodial Anglo-Saxon ASSIZE OF NORTHAMPTON ASSIZE OF WOODSTOCK Assizes of Clarendon attend barons became become bishops bocland boroughs bound to military bound to special breach charters comitatus Commons condition Conqueror consent Const constitution counties crown Curia Regis custom customary Danegeld double ownership duty earl Edward election emphyteusis England estates Exchequer feudal feudal tenure folcland forest laws forfeiture franchise freeholders freemen fyrd grant heir held his land Henry Henry II hereditary heriot Hist hold holder of bocland hundred itinerant justices judicial king king's kingdom knight-service knights landless landowners liable lord and vassal lord's Magna Carta manor merely military service moreover national council oath Odo of Bayeux Parliament possession of land privilege proprietors punished purely personal regrant reign relation render revolt royal sheriff sheriffdoms shire court socage statute suit and service summoned taxation tenants tenants-in-chief tenure of land territorial thegns theory tion trinoda necessitas villein William William Fitz-Osbern Witan writ
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Page 73 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 77 - Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom; 1.
Page 75 - All customs are the effect of foreign commerce, and all commerce and foreign affairs are in the hands of the King. The seaports are the King's gates, which he may open or shut to whom he pleases.
Page 31 - ... the oath of allegiance, combined with the act of homage, and obtained from all land-owners, whoever their feudal lord might be. It is a measure of precaution taken against the disintegrating power of feudalism, providing a direct tie between the sovereign and all freeholders which no inferior relation existing between them and the mesne lords would justify them in breaking.
Page 83 - The court sits as a court of first instance, and as a court of appeal for Magistrates' Courts and such Native Courts as may be prescribed.
Page 28 - In order that the shire might be relieved of all obligations beyond the ever-pressing necessity of defending its borders against the inroads of hostile neighbours, it was constituted a county palatine which the earl of Chester " held as freely by his sword as the king held England by his crown.
Page 77 - A freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise.
Page 58 - Nothing farther appears on record till in 1586 the house appointed a committee to examine the state and circumstances of the returns for the county of Norfolk. The fact was, that the chancellor had issued a second writ for this county, on the ground of some irregularity in the first return, and a different person had been elected. Some notice having been taken of this matter in the commons, the speaker received orders...
Page 28 - In these cases he created, or suffered the continuance of, great jurisdictions of the kind that is denominated palatine ; earldoms in which the earls were endowed with the superiority of whole counties, so that all the landowners held -feudally of them; in which they received the whole profits of the courts and exercised all the regalia...