King Edward I
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Edward I · King Edward the First · the son of Alfred
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
English king cited as an example of royal authority over judges.
”* Judges were in those days, and afterwards, such abject servants of the king, that “we find that King Edward I.
, when the barony of a Lord-Marcher became the subject of litigation, is entirely analogous to the proceedings thus adopted by the great council of Edward, the son of Alfred, the Anglo-Saxon king.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Thirteenth-century English king whose forest perambulation and a later ordinance from his reign are invoked as legal precedent.
anything in this present Act contained, or any Act or Ordinance made in the three-and-thirtieth year of King Edward the First, or any custom or law of the forest, or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Whereas by Act of Parliament made in the first year of the reign of the late King Edward the Third, it is ordained that the old perambulation of the forest in the time of King Edward the First should be thenceforth holden in like form as it was then ridden and bounded, and in such places where it was not bounden, the King would that it should be bounden by good men and lawful: