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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 as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Fruit
Fruit, as to larceny of and damage to, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 8(3), and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 23, 24; as to compensation to market garden tenant for fruit trees and fruit bushes, see ss. 48 and 49 and Sched. III. Of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which repealed and replaced the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908, which itself had replaced the Market Gardeners Compensation Act, 1895, see Saunders-Jacob v. Yates, (1933) 2 KB 240 (market garden includes part of private premises so treated). As to importation and marking of foreign fruit, see AGRICULTURAL ACTS (marketing-produce-returns).In Webster Comprehensive Dictionary, International Edition at p. 509, the word 'fruit' has been defined, the edible, pulpy mass, covering the seeds of various plants and trees. They are classified as fleshy, as gourds, melons, oranges, apples, pears, berries, etc. drupaceous as cherries, peaches, plums, apricots, and others containing stones; dry as nuts, capsuls, ashenia, follicles, legume...
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