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Coronation oath
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Protestant
and also required every sovereign on the first day of the meeting of his first Parliament or on coronation, which shall first happen, to make a declaration taken from 30 Car. 2, st. 2 (repealed by the … first happen, to make a declaration taken from 30 Car. 2, st. 2 (repealed by the (English) Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866), and expressed therein to be 'in the plain and ordinary sense of the words as they
Jury
officers of both Houses of Parliament, of the Supreme Court, and of metropolitan magistrates, clerks of the peace, coroners and deputies, sheriffs' officers and servants, solicitors' managing clerks, police, J.P.'s within their own jurisdiction, mem-bers of corporations, … Articles of their inquiry by the presiding judge. They sit in private, and receive indictments inquiring, upon their oaths, whether there be sufficient cause shown by the evidence of the prosecution to call upon the accused persons
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Arrest
meeting of the House. A member of House of Commons is entitled to this privilege even before taking oath. Peers are privileged from arrest in civil cases at all times, Parliamentary Practice by Erskine May, 22nd Edn., … arrest under a warrant from a magistrate-are as follows:- 1. At Common Law.--A peace officer, i.e., a sheriff, coroner, constable, or any justice of the peace, may arrest for felony, attempted felony, or on reasonable suspicion of
Transubstantiation
House of Peeres in the presence of the lords and commons therein assembled or at his or her coronation (which shall first happen),' to 'make subscribe and audibly repeate' the Declaration, as also did, in the case … Car. 2, st. 2, c. 1 (of which 'so much as is unrepealed' was repealed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866), required the sovereign 'on the first day of the meeting of the first Parlyament next after
Tenure
to carry his banner or his sword, or to be his butler, champion, or other officer at his coronation. In most other respects it was similar to knight-service, only he was not bound to pay aid or … other vassals, and perfected by homage and fealty; homage being the acknowledgment of tenure, and faculty the solemn oath made by the vassal of fidelity and attachment to the lord. The owner of a knight's fee was
Magna Carta
those liberties which had been confirmed by the charters of his predecessors, and his own solemn but disregarded oath. As the first step the barons disclaimed all allegiance to him, were formally absolved from their oaths of … river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our Crown.' Pleas of the Crown comprehend the criminal
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