An Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England: Wherein the Origin of Both Houses of Parliament, Their Antient Constitution, and the Changes that Have Happed'd in the Persons that Compos'd Them, with the Occasions Thereof, are Related in a Chronological Order : and Many Things Concerning the English Government, the Antiquities of the Laws of England, and the Feudal Law, are Occasionally Illustrated and Explain'dT. Woodward, 1725 - 197 стор. |
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Сторінка 102 - Norman desired a supply from the barons of his country, in order to assert his rlaim to the crown of England, they told him that the Normans were not bound to serve in foreign wars, and no consideration could induce them to raise a supply. See St. Amand, Historical Essay on the Legislative Power, p. 102. When the French monarchy became afterwards greatly enlarged, no aid or subsidy could be levied without the consent of the three estates in their general...
Сторінка 151 - Englifh; which rythings being generally given to the former, received the denominatipn of honours and baronies: and as the fuperiors in the Saxon time were, by their being fo, members of their legiflature ; fo thefe by the like reafon were members of the Norman parliament ; with this only difference, that as thefe were...
Сторінка 133 - Excheq. 498. the king at all ; for no pcrfon could be a liege-man .totwo lords; and earl John's man declared he was not bound to the king by homage or fealty, and they did both in like form that the king did to him*. To explain this matter to readers not verfed in the .feudal law, it is to be noted, that fealty might be fworn generally, and then it was called an allegiance, and the perfon that took it was called fuch a lord's liege-man, or, with an exception, as faving the faith that I bear to our...
Сторінка 144 - Common law, if in a burrough or manor it is called Cuftom; now towns being parcel of a manor, which is one royalty, cannot prefcribe for cuftoms, becaufe the orders made at the manor-court, bind not only the town but the whole manor; for in all cafes, by the rules of law, the prefcription...
Сторінка 197 - Power has been vefted as it now is ; fo we may, I think, fafely conclude, that from the earlieft Accounts of Time, our...
Сторінка 149 - ... land is- certain. Now, confidering all the others were reprefented, to fuppofe the burroughs, were not under which name London and all other cities were originally comprifed, making fo confiderable a part of the kingdom, feems unreafonable and improbable. 4. The right of the barons...