The Great Charter (Magna Carta)
quoted 3 times by 2 works · not held
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 2 citations
The passage reports in substance the Great Charter's guarantee, invoking it as authority for the due-process argument against the Star Chamber.
Whereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament, it is enacted that no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful judgment of his Peers or by the law of the land;
ch. 14 ¶ -
The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of the Great Charter as constitutional authority.
The Great Charter—which was at once the embodiment and guarantee of the Common Law form of government, and which, within about two hundred years from the grant of it in 1215, was confirmed more than thirty times, was confirmed for the last time in 1415.
ch. 29 ¶
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