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Vetera statuta, the ancient statutes commencing with Magna Charta, and ending with those of Edward II., including also some which, because it is doubtful to which of the three reigns of Henry III., Edward I., or Edward II. to assign them, are said to be incerti temporis, 2 Reeves, c. 8, p. 85.