An Historical View of the English Government from the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688: To which are Subjoined Some Dissertations Connected with the History of the Government, from the Revolution to the Present Time, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1818 - Constitutional history |
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... Parliament in the same Period . SECT . 1. Introduction of the Representatives of Counties and Boroughs into Parliament . - - 182 SECT . 2. The Division of Parliament into two Houses , and the peculiar Privileges acquired by each House ...
... Parliament in the same Period . SECT . 1. Introduction of the Representatives of Counties and Boroughs into Parliament . - - 182 SECT . 2. The Division of Parliament into two Houses , and the peculiar Privileges acquired by each House ...
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... Parliament . - - CHAP . VII . Alterations in the State of the ordinary Courts of Justice . SECT . 1. Establishment of the Courts of Com- mon Law , at Westminster . · · · Page 240 264 ibid . 316 SECT . 2. Of the Petty and the Grand Jury ...
... Parliament . - - CHAP . VII . Alterations in the State of the ordinary Courts of Justice . SECT . 1. Establishment of the Courts of Com- mon Law , at Westminster . · · · Page 240 264 ibid . 316 SECT . 2. Of the Petty and the Grand Jury ...
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... parliament , though its mem- bers appeared under a different description , * It has been alleged , that the name of parliament was bestowed upon the English national council even in the reign of Edward the Confessor , at which time the ...
... parliament , though its mem- bers appeared under a different description , * It has been alleged , that the name of parliament was bestowed upon the English national council even in the reign of Edward the Confessor , at which time the ...
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... parliament which confirmed the collection of Edward the Confessor's laws , preserved by Ingulphus , the abbot of Croyland , and secretary to William the first . Selden , ibid . Another Parliament was held in 1070 , for termi- nating a ...
... parliament which confirmed the collection of Edward the Confessor's laws , preserved by Ingulphus , the abbot of Croyland , and secretary to William the first . Selden , ibid . Another Parliament was held in 1070 , for termi- nating a ...
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... parliament . In every subordinate barony into which the kingdom was divided , the vassals exercised a similar privilege with respect to the conduct of their own superior . A public statute was , according to this prac- tice , a sort of ...
... parliament . In every subordinate barony into which the kingdom was divided , the vassals exercised a similar privilege with respect to the conduct of their own superior . A public statute was , according to this prac- tice , a sort of ...
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