View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volumen2W.J. Widdleton, 1872 |
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Página 309 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Página 342 - And if a merchant thrived, so that he fared thrice over the wide sea by his own means; then was he thenceforth of thane-right worthy.
Página 303 - ... judicial redress. The king, we are often told, is the fountain of justice ; but in those ages, it was one which gold alone could unseal. Men fined to have right done them ; to sue in a certain court ; to implead a certain person ; to have restitution of land which they had recovered at law. From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it. Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor ; that is, for...
Página 115 - O prophet, I am the man : whosoever rises against thee, I will dash out his teeth, tear out his eyes, break his legs, rip up his belly. O prophet, I will be thy vizir over them.
Página 166 - During an interdict, the churches were closed, the bells silent, the dead unburied, no rite but those of baptism and extreme unction performed. The penalty fell upon those who had neither partaken nor could have prevented the offence ; and the offence was often but a private dispute, in which the pride of a pope or bishop had been wounded.
Página 49 - Aragonese established a positive right of maintaining their liberties by arms. This was contained in the Privilege of Union granted by Alfonso III. in 1287, after a violent conflict with his subjects ; but which was afterwards so completely abolished and even eradicated from the records of the kingdom, that its precise words have never been recovered...
Página 255 - No unbiassed observer, who derives pleasure from the welfare of his species, can fail to consider the long and uninterruptedly increasing prosperity of England as the most beautiful phenomenon in the history of mankind.
Página 309 - But the essential clauses of Magna Charta are those which protect the personal liberty and property of all freemen, by giving security from arbitrary imprisonment and arbitrary spoliation.
Página 379 - ... possessions, in land sufficient (as was said) wherewith to maintain their rank and station — neither suspected by nor at variance with either of the parties ; all of the neighborhood ; there shall be read to them in English by the court the record and nature of the plea at length which is depending between the parties ; and the issue thereupon shall be plainly laid before them, concerning the truth of which those who are so sworn are to certify the court : which done, each of the parties, by...
Página 116 - ... assembly of his friends a vizir and lieutenant in command, I am the man ; whoever rises against thee, I will dash out his teeth, tear out his eyes, break his legs, rip up his belly- O prophet, I will be thy vizir over them.* These words of Mohammed's early and illustrious disciple are, as it were, a text, upon which the commentary expands into the whole Saracenic history.