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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The capital city, both site of key negotiations and object of competing royal and baronial appeals for support, whose surrender to the barons proves decisive.
London opened its gates on 17th May.
On 25th August, after John had set out with his mercenaries to punish his northern magnates, Stephen Langton held a meeting with the great men of the south.
On 9th May a new charter was granted to the Londoners, who now received a long–coveted privilege, the right to elect their mayor annually and to remove him at the year’s end.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
London, the city to which the Duke of Buckingham travels during the episode concerning the King's physic.
Whereupon the Duke besought His Majesty not to make use of it, but by the advice of his own physicians, nor until it should be first tried by James Palmer of his bed-chamber, who was then sick of an ague, and upon two children in the town, which the King said he would do.
They sent for our Sheriff of London to examine him in a cause whereof they had no jurisdiction;
Also we have assigned you, the aforesaid Mayor and Aldermen of the city aforesaid, or any thirteen, or more of you, within thirteen days after the receipt of this writ, to assess all men in the said city, and in the liberties, and members of the same, and the landholders in the same, not having a ship, or any part of the aforesaid ships, nor serving in the same, to contribute to the expenses, abou …
Law in a Free State
The English capital, referenced both as a haven for political refugees and as a figure in an analogy about gradual progress.
” Surely the road to London is not London.
It has long been an open secret that the asylum offered by London to political refugees is exceedingly distasteful to the rulers of foreign countries, and that certain exalted personages had made no secret of their determination to force England to join hands with the continental despotisms in “stamping out socialism.
Similar attempts in London have been ruthlessly stamped out.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
City whose poor wage-earners' condition was revealed by the Morning Chronicle's letters, arousing philanthropic sympathy.
There are persons still living who can recall the time when about sixty years ago the Morning Chronicle in letters on London Labour and the London Poor revealed to the readers of high-class, and then dear, newspapers the miserable condition of the poorer wage-earners of London.
Bentham was the son of a wealthy London attorney.
Yet even in London the protection was not adequately supplied.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
City whose jury statutes and mayor-and-bailiffs court are discussed.
A statute passed in 1494, in regard to jurors in the city of London, enacts:
Coke, in his commentary on this chapter, calls this court of “the mayor and bailiffs” of London, “the court of the hustings, the greatest and highest court in London;
11 and 12, (1278,) “the mayor and bailiffs of London (undoubtedly chosen by the people, or at any rate not appointed by the king) are manifestly spoken of as judges, or magistrates, holding jury trials, as follows:
The Law of Torts
The city used as the setting for the illustrative example of a pedestrian's exposure to traffic risk.
“No one (at all events some years ago, before the admirable police regulations of later years) could have crossed London streets without knowing that there was a risk of being run over”.
to have interfered with the further use of sea coal in London, because it had been ascertained to their satisfaction, or predicted to their satisfaction, that by the reign of Queen Victoria both white and red roses would have ceased to bloom in the Temple Gardens.
Many houses have stables attached to them, but the man who turns the whole ground floor of a London house into a stable, or otherwise keeps a stable so near a neighbour’s living rooms that the inhabitants are disturbed all night (even though he has done nothing beyond using the arrangements of the house as he found them), does so at his own risk.
Economics of Socialism
London, the location of publication and the setting for the economic examples used in the lectures.
James’ Park London, S.
in gold constitute an equation of value in London today, I shall not attempt to controvert them.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Named as a possible seat of central supremacy over the states, no less dangerous to liberty than a supremacy located in Washington.
and a supremacy at London or at Washington, however more direful to liberty at one place, would not be divested of terrors at the other.
The Law of Intellectual Property
The city where the exhibition introducing the American Reaper took place.
The whole world has become familiar with the great American Reaper, which the London Exhibition first introduced to European observation.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
City repeatedly used as the paradigm example of corporate/municipal 'freeman' status.
“Freeman—liber homo.
“There are three ways to be a freeman of London;
In Jacobs’ Law Dictionary the following definitions, among others, are given of the word “freeman.