Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... civil wars of Stephen's reign and establish a common law for all Englishmen , was confronted by ecclesiastical privileges incompatible with his object . For the Church's punishments for its erring members were far too light to maintain ...
... civil wars of Stephen's reign and establish a common law for all Englishmen , was confronted by ecclesiastical privileges incompatible with his object . For the Church's punishments for its erring members were far too light to maintain ...
Page 162
... civil as opposed to criminal law , were all concerned with the ownership or possession of land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of ...
... civil as opposed to criminal law , were all concerned with the ownership or possession of land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of ...
Page 350
... Civil or Common Law . When the point was put to the serjeants of the Common Law and the learned doctors of Civil Law , they unanimously agreed that it was not . Nor was this decision that of men who , like the royal judges at Nottingham ...
... Civil or Common Law . When the point was put to the serjeants of the Common Law and the learned doctors of Civil Law , they unanimously agreed that it was not . Nor was this decision that of men who , like the royal judges at Nottingham ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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