Freemen
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freemen · freeman · liber homo · freeholders · a free man · all freemen · any freeman · free adult male members of the state · free-born adult male members · free-tenants
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Free tenants and freeholders, the class whose access to the King's courts and protection from arbitrary requisition Magna Carta and Henry II's reforms addressed.
while the doors of the royal Courts had been opened to the ordinary freeman no earlier than the reign of Henry II.
He was the first king also to throw open the doors of his own courts of law to all–comers, to all freemen, that is to say, for the villein had for centuries still to seek redress in the Court of that very lord of the manor who was too often his oppressor.
No carts or horses belonging to a freeman were to be requisitioned by any sheriff or bailiff for the King’s use without the owner’s consent;
Institutes of Roman Law
Free persons eligible to be instituted as heirs, mentioned alongside slaves.
Not only freemen but slaves, whether belonging to the testator or to another person, may be instituted heirs.
for a bone broken or bruised three hundred asses, if the person injured was a freeman;
propter os uero fractum aut conlisum trecentorum assium poena erat, si libero os fractum erat;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Free persons whose liberty and property Magna Carta's chapter is designed to protect.
“A freeman shall not be amerced for a small crime, (delicto,) but according to the degree of the crime;
“No freeman shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his freehold, or his liberties, or free customs, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, nor will we (the king) pass upon him, nor condemn him, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
“Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut disseisetur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Persons holding a franchise, corporate privilege, or citizenship, as used in English and colonial law.
The persons and companies, to whom the colonial charters were granted, and those who were afterwards to be admitted as their associates, were described as “freemen of said colony,” “freemen of said province,” “freemen of said company,” “freemen of the said company and body politick,” &c.
“The title of a freeman is also given to any one admitted to the freedom of a corporate town, or of any other corporate body, consisting, among other members, of those called freemen.
In Jacobs’ Law Dictionary the following definitions, among others, are given of the word “freeman.