The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: The making of the constitutionHoughton, Mifflin, 1889 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 81
Página i
... institutions of one age have always been modelled and formed from those of the preceding , and their lineal descent has never been interrupted or disturbed . " - PALGRAVE . " And thus it comes to pass that Magna Carta , the Acts of the ...
... institutions of one age have always been modelled and formed from those of the preceding , and their lineal descent has never been interrupted or disturbed . " - PALGRAVE . " And thus it comes to pass that Magna Carta , the Acts of the ...
Página xi
... institutions , there are epochs of growth so marked that they may be made the subject of separate and distinct treatment . The history of the growth of the ― - - English constitution may be broken into two PREFACE . xi.
... institutions , there are epochs of growth so marked that they may be made the subject of separate and distinct treatment . The history of the growth of the ― - - English constitution may be broken into two PREFACE . xi.
Página xviii
... INSTITUTIONS . · · • 1. General Character of Teutonic Conquest on the Continent Italy , Gaul , and Spain Latinized and Christianized by the end of the fourth centu- ry ; Teutonic invaders settle down in the midst of the Continental ...
... INSTITUTIONS . · · • 1. General Character of Teutonic Conquest on the Continent Italy , Gaul , and Spain Latinized and Christianized by the end of the fourth centu- ry ; Teutonic invaders settle down in the midst of the Continental ...
Página xix
... institutions ; the hundred court , like all other Teutonic courts , a popular assembly ; president of the hundred court chosen in the state assembly 9. The State Assembly : its functions chiefly political 107 107 Its business prepared ...
... institutions ; the hundred court , like all other Teutonic courts , a popular assembly ; president of the hundred court chosen in the state assembly 9. The State Assembly : its functions chiefly political 107 107 Its business prepared ...
Página xxviii
... Institution of Scutage or Shield - money Assize of arms 1280 281 . 282 282 • . 283 284 · 4. Henry's Effort to establish the Reign of Equal Law : conflict with the clergy · • 284 Becket as primate ; first quarrel between Thomas and the ...
... Institution of Scutage or Shield - money Assize of arms 1280 281 . 282 282 • . 283 284 · 4. Henry's Effort to establish the Reign of Equal Law : conflict with the clergy · • 284 Becket as primate ; first quarrel between Thomas and the ...
Contenido
1 | |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
7 | |
12 | |
28 | |
312 | |
323 | |
328 | |
331 | |
334 | |
341 | |
342 | |
344 | |
39 | |
45 | |
66 | |
73 | |
76 | |
79 | |
82 | |
94 | |
97 | |
117 | |
125 | |
131 | |
142 | |
149 | |
160 | |
165 | |
167 | |
184 | |
187 | |
188 | |
189 | |
192 | |
202 | |
208 | |
223 | |
224 | |
232 | |
237 | |
241 | |
248 | |
253 | |
256 | |
266 | |
273 | |
280 | |
284 | |
293 | |
295 | |
299 | |
311 | |
347 | |
354 | |
358 | |
360 | |
364 | |
376 | |
388 | |
394 | |
400 | |
406 | |
408 | |
414 | |
422 | |
428 | |
429 | |
441 | |
446 | |
451 | |
457 | |
464 | |
475 | |
478 | |
489 | |
490 | |
497 | |
510 | |
520 | |
529 | |
536 | |
543 | |
547 | |
552 | |
555 | |
557 | |
561 | |
568 | |
574 | |
581 | |
587 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
A. S. Law administration Ælfred Æthelstan ancient Bæda barons became bishops body Britain century Cerdic Chron church Cnut colonies Cong Conq conquerors conquest Const constitution council court baron court leet crown curia curia regis Danegeld Digby district Eadgar Eadward ealdorman Ecgberht elected English nation Essays in A. S. estates existence federal feudal finally folkland Freeman Gaul grant growth Henry heptarchic Hist hundred court Ibid judicial jurisdiction jury justice Kemble king king's kingdom kingship land Law of Real legislative lord manor ment Mercia national assembly Norm Norman Norman conquest Northumbria Old-English organization origin parish parliament political possessed primitive principle Real Property reign represented Roman royal Saxons in Eng Saxons in England Select Charters settlements sheriff shire Stubbs summoned Tacitus tenants tenure Teutonic thegns tion tive town township trial union vested village village-community Wessex West Saxons whole William witan witenagemot writ
Pasajes populares
Página 75 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 17 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Página 57 - We are convinced policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Página 384 - ... to ransom his body, and to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and for this there shall be only paid a reasonable aid.
Página 408 - It shall not be lawful from henceforth to any to give his lands to any religious house, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house. Nor shall it be lawful to any house of religion to take the lands of any, and to lease the...
Página 82 - At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it had formed itself into a corporate body.
Página 265 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell. though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Página 561 - But it is much otherwise with a king whose government is political, because he can neither make any alteration or change in the laws of the realm without the consent of the...
Página 519 - For, as every court of justice hath laws and customs for its direction, some the civil and canon, some the common law, others their own peculiar laws and customs, so the high court of parliament hath also its own peculiar law, called the lex et consuetude parliamenii : a law which sir Edward Coke (n) observes is, " ab omnibus quaerenda, u mullís ignorata, a paucis
Página 63 - The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry. As the latter have considered the work of the immortal bard as the perfect model from which the principles and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged, so this great political critic appears to have viewed the Constitution of England as thei standard, or, to use his own expression, as the mirror of political liberty, and to have delivered in the...