History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... Importance of the county - courts ; their composi- tion and attributes . Complex origin of the Jury . - Central institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . - The Wittenagemot ; its com- position , and the principle on which it was based ...
... Importance of the county - courts ; their composi- tion and attributes . Complex origin of the Jury . - Central institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . - The Wittenagemot ; its com- position , and the principle on which it was based ...
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... importance of the Councils of Toledo . - Principal kings of the Visigoths . - Egica collects the Forum judicum . - Fall of the Visigothic monarchy in Spain 206 LECTURE XXV . · Peculiar character of the legislation of the Visigoths ...
... importance of the Councils of Toledo . - Principal kings of the Visigoths . - Egica collects the Forum judicum . - Fall of the Visigothic monarchy in Spain 206 LECTURE XXV . · Peculiar character of the legislation of the Visigoths ...
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... importance and significance . Such is , gentlemen , up to a certain point , the position in which we ourselves are placed with regard to that subject which is to come before us in the present course of lectures . It is from the midst of ...
... importance and significance . Such is , gentlemen , up to a certain point , the position in which we ourselves are placed with regard to that subject which is to come before us in the present course of lectures . It is from the midst of ...
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... importance . Bands of men , unable to find means of subsistence in their own country , entered the imperial territory , and pillaged as they went ; their fate was decided by the event of a battle ; they were dispersed or annihilated by ...
... importance . Bands of men , unable to find means of subsistence in their own country , entered the imperial territory , and pillaged as they went ; their fate was decided by the event of a battle ; they were dispersed or annihilated by ...
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... Importance of the county - courts ; their composition and attributes . - Complex origin of the Jury . - Central institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . - The Wittenagemot ; its composition , and the principle on which it was based ...
... Importance of the county - courts ; their composition and attributes . - Complex origin of the Jury . - Central institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . - The Wittenagemot ; its composition , and the principle on which it was based ...
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Page 366 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of holy Church, and to the profit of our realm, have granted for us and our heirs, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest, which were made by common assent of all the realm, in the time of King Henry our father, shall be kept in every point without breach.