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Bracton
a voluminous work. It is divided into five books, and these into tracts and chapters. See 2 Reeves' Hist. c. viii. 86, note (a), for an analysis of the several divisions of the chapters and a complete
Bank
and functions of the bank in modern times, consult Bagehot's 'Lombard Street.' As to its origin, see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. Xx.; Hall. Const. Hist., ch. xv.; and for the original Charter, see Pulling's Statutory Rules
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Militia
who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen and thirty,
High Court of Justice
was also the style assumed by the revolutionary tribunal which sent Charles I. to the scaffold; see Clarendon's Hist., vol. iii., p. 244.
House of Lords
error to rectify any injustice or mistake of the law committed by the courts below, 3 Hallam's Constit. Hist.; Consult Macqueen's Practice of the House of Lords; Sugden's Law of Property, Introd. Chap. By the Judicature Act,1873,
Husting
name. There were hustings at York, Winchester, Lincoln, and in other places, similar to the London hustings, Madox, Hist. Excheq., c. xx. Also the raised wooden platform from which candidates for seats in Parliament, prior to the
Kennelworth edict
had forfeited their estates in that rebellion, which composition was five years' rent of the estate forfeited, Hale's Hist., p. 10, n. (d).
King's evil
ribbon to which was fastened a gold coin; for an account of the ceremony of 'touching,' see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. xiv.
Land-tax
to public purposes are not liable to land-tax. As to its origin and inequality, see 3 Hall. Cons. Hist. 135; Miller on the Land-tax; Bourdin on Land-tax. The more agricultural counties, upon which the burden of the
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