CHAPTER XXII

GREAT ORIGINS IN LAW. 350

Legal origins most surprising feature of the century. Significance of

Magna Charta. Excerpts that show its character. The church, widows and

orphans, common pleas, international law, no {xxiv} tax without

consent, rights of freemen. Development of meaning as time and

progress demanded it. Bracton's digest of the common law. Edward I.

the English Justinian. Simon de Montfort. Real estate laws.

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