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Chart-- libertatum

Chart-- libertatum are Magna Charta (see that title) and Charta de Foresta.

Justitia debet esse LIBERA, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; PLENA, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et CELER, quita dilatio qu'dam negatio

not to halt; and quick, for delay is a kind of denial.) compare the 29th chapter of Magna Charta, post, MAGNA CHARTA.

Magna Carta et Carta de Foresta sont appelles les deux grandes chartres

Magna Carta et Carta de Foresta sont appelles les deux grandes chartres. 2 Inst. 570.-(Magna Charta and the Charta of the Forest are called the two great charters.) 'The two famous charters of English

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Peer

Norfolk Earldom, 1907, AC 10). See Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 160. Under the rule, established by Magna Charta, which applies to every subject of the realm, a peer, indicted for treason or felony, must be tried

Nisi prius

action was formerly triable only in the Court where it was brought. But it was provided by Magna Charta, in ease of the subject, that assizes of novel disseisin and mort-ancestor (which were the most common remedies

Open Law

Open Law [lex manifesta, Lat.], the making or waging of law, Magna Charta, c. 21.

Pares

originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties litigant. Magna Charta (see that title) provides against the condemnation of a freeman nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per

Riparia

Coke takes to mean water running between two banks; in other places it is rendered 'bank.' See MAGNA CHARTA, cap. 15; 2 Inst. 478.

Purliue

Purliue [fr. poirallee, Fr.], land formerly added to an ancient forest by unlawful encroachment, and disafforested by the Charta de Foresta, 4 Inst. 303. See Williams on Rights of Common, p. 233; Manwood, c. 20.

Reasonable parts

imperceptible degrees. The Wills Act, 1837, is inconsistent with, but does not expressly repeal, the saving of Magna Charta for the 'reasonable parts,' but the Wills Act does not apply to Scotland, where (see LEGITIM), as generally

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