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

by William Sharp McKechnie

[952]. Commentaries, III. 72.

[953]. By 57 George III. c. 61.

[954]. In virtue of a series of Acts of which 14-15 Victoria c. 42 is the latest.

[955]. See Stephen, Commentaries, II. 465-6.

[956]. Constable and bailiff are discussed supra, c. 24, and shown to include forest magistrates, supra, c. 44.

[957]. See supra, 36–7, and cf. Blackstone, Great Charter, viii.

[958]. See c. 50.

[959]. Const. Hist., I. 578, n.

[960]. Cf. supra, p. [34].

[961]. “Nolunt leges Anglie mutare que usitate sunt et approbate.” See Statute of Merton, c. 9.