Select Cases from the Coroners' Rolls, A.D. 1265-1413: With a Brief Account of the History of the Office of Coroner, Volume 9Charles Gross |
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Page 10 - Director (but always subject to the control of the Council) to supervise the editing of the publications of the Society, to suggest suitable editors, and generally to advise the Council with respect to carrying the objects of the Society into effect. 12. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of every work published by the Society as for any year of his membership. No person other than an Honorary Member shall receive any such work until his subscription for the year as for which the same shall...
Page 8 - ... customs of the people ; they illustrate the working of the ordeals of fire and water, and show how a substitute was gradually found in trial by jury. They are mostly cases of felony, but care has been taken to collect whatever throws light on the procedure of the Local Courts, the system of frankpledge, the organisation of counties and boroughs for judicial purposes, &c., &c. Vol. II., for 1888. SELECT PLEAS IN MANORIAL AND OTHER SEIGNORIAL COURTS. Vol. I., Henry III. and Edward I. Edited, from...
Page 11 - March 1896, and thereafter in the month of March in each year. The Council may upon their own resolution and shall on the request in writing of not less than ten members call a Special General Meeting. Seven days' notice at least, specifying the object of the meeting and the time and place at which it is to be held, shall be posted to every member resident in the United Kingdom at his lsst known address.
Page 120 - ... dictate, and in these and in all other things I will abide by the will and command of my lord the king, and obey the decision of his court in all things.
Page 70 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting.
Page 8 - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK.
Page 10 - Society. 2. The object of the Society shall be to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English Law, especially by the publication of original documents and the reprinting or editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance. 3. Membership of the Society shall be constituted by payment of the annual subscription, or, in the case of life members, of the composition. Form of application is given at the foot of page 196.
Page 9 - This volume contains those portions of Bracton's work in which he follows Azo printed in parallel columns with Azo's text. The use made by Bracton of the works of Bernard of Pavia and the canonist Tancred is also illustrated. Vol. IX., for 1895. SELECT CASES from the CORONERS
Page 8 - These consist largely of actions relating to land, either directly, as in the various assises, writs of right and of entry, actions for dower, &c.; or indirectly, as for feudal services, tolls, franchises, rivers, &c. Others do not concern land. The extracts illustrate the gradual evolution of the different forms of action, both real and personal. Vol. IV., for 1890. THE COURT BARON: PRECEDENTS OF PLEADING IN MANORIAL AND O'IHER LOCAL COURTS.