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Magna Carta

the deficiencies of the Common Law. 'Codes are not made; they make themselves,' said Pourtales, and this is true also of Magna Charta, of which many of the chapters in substance and detail contain provisions which could … 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