 And, lastly, (which alone would have merited the title that it bears, of the great charter,) it protected every individual of the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, unless declared to be forfeited by the judgment...  Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Page 359by Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811Full view - About this book
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 670 pages
...deduced from its grand original, chapter 29 of the Great Charter, which protected every individual in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty and...declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land. By "law of the land" was probably meant the ancient Saxon common law. In Murray... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1870 - 510 pages
...the kingdom ; and lastly (which alone would have merited the title it bears of the great charter), it protected every individual of the nation in the...life, his liberty, and his property, unless declared forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land." One knows not whether to be amused... | |
 | Maria Hack - Feudalism - 1872 - 342 pages
...their liberties and free customs. "And, lastly, that every individual of the nation is to be protected in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, unless these arc declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land." This last... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...kingdom. And, lastly, (which alone would have merited the title that it bears, of the great charter,) it protected every individual of the nation in the...declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land (»). However, by means of these struggles the pope, in the reign of King John,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
..." CHAPTER XI. OP THE PROTECTION TO PROPERTY BY "THE LAW OP THE LAND." THE protection of the subject in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, except as they might be declared by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land to be forfeited,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 658 pages
...would have merited the title that it bears, of the great charter), it protected every individual ot the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, his...declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land. (3) *However, by means of these struggles, the pope, in the reign of King г »¿л-... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 448 pages
...Commentaires des Lois de l'Angleterre (vol. 4, p. 500) a résumé en quelque sorte dans la phrase suivante : " It protected every individual of the nation in the...declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land." Voici ce chapitre 29 de la Grande Charte, tel que reproduit par Stephen (loco... | |
 | Henry Harper Geach - Law - 1877 - 74 pages
...and, above all, secured the liberty of the subject by protecting every person, as Blackstone says, " in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and...declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land." Now the ancient Acts of Parliament which were made before the time of legal memory,... | |
 | William Banks Slaughter - Statesmen - 1878 - 318 pages
...denials or delays of justice. It brought the trial of issues home to the doors of the freeholders. It protected every individual of the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, of his liberty, and of his prosperity . It secured the trial by jury, that impregnable bulwark against... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 1112 pages
...Constitution of other States, and in fact is as old as Magna Charta. " The protection of the subject in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, except as they might be declared by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land to be forfeited,... | |
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