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Rastell

Rastell, John, and William, his son, lawyers and printers of the time of Henry VIII. John Rastell translated from the French the 'Abridgment of the Statutes prior to the time of Henry

the decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury, from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York

Curtesy of England

Life Estate, c. iii. Some English writers (Mirror, c. 1. S. 3) ascribe the law of curtesy to Henry I., but Nthaniel Bacon (Government, 4 to, 1647, p. 105) calls it a law of counter-tenure to that

Defender of the Faith

given by the Pope; and that of Defensor Fidei was first conferred in 1521 by Leo. X. on henry VIII. (but personally only), as a reward for writing against Martin Luther. In 1538 Pope Paul III., on

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and

Suffragan

however, empowers the King by Order in Council to add towns to those specified in the Act of Henry VIII., and to change the sees of suffragans appointed before the passing of the Act, and the Suffragan

Register of writs

However, this uniformity was not so exact as that the writs published and used in the reign of Henry VIII. were all of them identically the same with those used at the first origin of this invention,

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