The Germs and Developments of the Laws of England: Embracing the Anglo-Saxon Laws Extant : from the Sixth Century to A.D., 1066 : as Translated Into English Under the Royal Record Commission of William IV. : with the Introduction of the Common Law by Norman Judges After the Conquest, and Its Earliest Proferts in Magna Charta

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Banks, 1889 - Common law - 370 pages
 

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Page 68 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Page 324 - And if any one shall die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt...
Page 336 - All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there, and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs, without any evil tolls; except in time of war, or when they are of any nation at war with us.
Page 339 - We will entirely remove from our bailiwicks the relations of Gerard de Atheyes, so that for the future they shall have no bailiwick in England : we will also remove Engelard de Cygony, Andrew Peter, and Gyon, from the Chancery ; Gyon...
Page 344 - ... who shall take care with all their might, to hold and observe, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted them, and by this our present Charter...
Page 334 - There shall be one measure of wine and one of ale, through our whole realm ; and one measure of corn, that is to say, the London quarter...
Page 348 - Banks shall be defended from henceforth, but such as were in defence in the time of King Henry our Grandfather, by the same places, and the same bounds, as they were wont to be in his time.
Page 328 - We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciary, shall send two justiciaries through every county four times a year, who, with four knights, chosen out of every shire by the people, shall hold the said assizes, in the county, on the day, and at the place appointed.
Page 323 - ... the debt; and if they will they shall have the lands and rents of the debtor, until they shall be satisfied for the debt which they paid for him, unless the principal debtor can show himself acquitted thereof against the said sureties.
Page 326 - ALL OTHERS WHO HOLD OF US IN CHIEF, FOR A CERTAIN DAY, THAT IS TO SAY...

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