Magna Charta
Framers of Magna Charta (English statute, 13th century)
cited 6 times by 4 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Magna Charta the object
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A Protest Against Law-Taxes Jeremy Bentham 2 citations · 3 passages
Magna Charta is directly named and its principle stated as authoritative in p-95ba3a.
Justice shall be denied to no man, justice shall be sold to no man, says the first of statutes, Magna Charta.
ch. 1 ¶ -
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations · 6 passages
Thomson's Magna Charta is cited for biographical and documentary detail, though the author notes it perpetuates at least one historical error originating with Coke.
For an account of this and of its discovery, see Thomson, Magna Charta, pp.
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 neutral 1 citation
Magna charta is named and its legislative history reported as an example within the broader argument about the mutability of charters.
This charter itself has been so entirely obliterated by laws, as to have become useless, and to deserve a very opprobious appellation bestowed upon it by an English judge, but yet so appropriate as to have been long commemorated.
ch. 13 ¶ -
The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 citation
Magna Charta is named directly as a source for the terminology used to describe the Common Law.
” Magna Charta calls it “justice and right.
ch. 28 ¶
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