| Richard Thomson - Great Britain - 1828 - 338 pages
...all, which alone might have procured it the name of Magna Charta, it declared that no freeman should be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed or condemned, unless by the legal judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; adding,... | |
| Richard Thomson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 712 pages
...his own simple affirmation, without credible witnesses produced for that purpose. — (XXXII. 39.) No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed ; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - Common law - 1843 - 334 pages
...upon his own simple affirmation, without credible witnesses produced for that purpose — (XXXIX. 29.) No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed ; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment... | |
| Church work with the poor - 1853 - 1004 pages
...most famous sections in the «hole instrument ; these are chapters 39 and 40. The former provides that no freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any »ay destroyed, except by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the hind. Chapter 40,... | |
| American periodicals - 1864 - 588 pages
...to a demand that they should enjoy the right guaranteed by Magna Charta, expressed in these words: 'No freeman shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed ; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison excepting by the legal judgment... | |
| William Chadwick - Great Britain - 1865 - 324 pages
...his own simple affirmation, without credible witnesses produced for that purpose. — (XXXIX. 29.) No free-man shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed ; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment... | |
| Charles Henry Pearson - Great Britain - 1867 - 622 pages
...289. ARTICLES OF of justice, the second by his irregular taxation. The thirty-ninth article, that " no freeman shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed,...will not go against any man, nor send against him, except by legal judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land,'" is a broad statement of personal... | |
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...government. " No freeman," ran the memorable article that lies at the base of our whole judicial system, " shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way arought to ruin : we will not go against any man nor send against him, save by legal judgment of his... | |
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...government. "No freeman," ran the memorable article that lies at the base of our whole judicial system, "shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or...not go against any man nor send against him, save by legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." " To no man will we sell," runs another, "... | |
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