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共 41 段- His accession, at the same time, it will be allowed, was a s
- Since every political society was originally framed for the
- As the lectures of the English professor are all read in the
- Lastly, Some resort as far as Constantinople for the rise of
- It is time now to attend a little to their domestic policy,
- But these invasions of the northern nations were a long time
- But, to do justice to the clergy of that age, there was anot
- These were all the aids necessarily required by the law in t
- Another thing is to be observed, that, although, at the intr
- These payments of the tenth hitherto we see were voluntary;
- The introduction of distress on socage tenants was thus: Whe
- Reliefs, however, being, in their original creation, arbitra
- The manner of taking advantage of this obligation of the lor
- However, it is rather to be presumed that this incroachment
- A man purchases _feudum novum, ut antiquum_, and dies withou
- As to signing, it is insignificant where the signature is, w
- William was sensible, from the experience of that country, h
- The customs paid by merchant strangers were not originally s
- His great successor, Elizabeth, carried this practice farthe
- These two instances were, indeed, of a particular nature, an
- For the further encouragement of valour, these marks became
- I have the rather mentioned this ancient practice of making
- From this power of the lord as to his villein’s property, it
- They were still called tenants at will, because, they had be
- I next proceed to the _method of trial_, or determining the
- To come now to William. A single battle, wherein Harold and
- The private views of the king were twofold, the first arose
- Henry, though he had subdued Normandy, and kept his brother
- The greatest and most beneficial step taken by Henry the Sec
- Another branch of his jurisdiction was with relation to the
- It will be now proper to consider the nature and extent of t
- Henry, who loved his children, and was sensible that the not
- John, however, went on in his old courses, being now sure of
- The king now had the custody, as also the profits, by a lega
- When the empire became Christian, these courts and their aut
- The next branch of the statute is, _Nullus liber homo dissei
- First, then, the king had from his tenants _in capite_, who
- [10] On the following record in the register of Ely, this no
- [33] _Hume, Hist. of England, vol. V. p. 462._ This historia
- [335] Madox, Baronia Angl. p. 25. Seld. tit. hon. part 2. ch
- Longchamp Archbishop of Canterbury, 330