Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John / With an Historical Introduction

by William Sharp McKechnie

[709]. See Bracton, II. folio 123, and folio 137.

[710]. Pipe Roll, 2 John, cited Madox, I. 348.

[711]. Cf. supra, c. [24].

[712]. 3 Edward I. c. 12.

[713]. The Act 12 George III. c. 20, made standing mute equivalent to a plea of guilty. A later act, 7 and 8 George IV. c. 28, made it equivalent to a plea of not guilty. See Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, I. 298.

[714]. This fiction of corrupt blood was apparently based in part on a false derivation of the word “attainder.” See Oxford English Dictionary.

[715]. E.g. 54 George III. c. 145, and 3 and 4 William IV. c. 106, s. 10.

[716]. 33 and 34 Victoria, c. 23.

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