Liberty of Subject (1354)
28 Edw. 3 c. 3 · Extends to England and Wales
X1X2The STATUTE of The Twenty-eighth Year of King Edward III.
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Editorial notes
- X1
The original text of this Act was not modern English. The traditional translation appears first with obsolete characters modernised. The original text (as an image) appears second.
- X2
In the old Printed Copies this is intituled 'Statutum apud Weftmonafterium de libertatibus Londoniarum:' and in MS. Harl. 4999, 'The Statute of Weftminfter of the Liberties of London.' [MS. Harl. 4999 refers to one of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Library.]
Contents
IIINone shall be condemned without due Process of Law.
ITEM, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, shall be put out of Land or Tenement, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to Death, without being brought in Answer by due Process of the Law.
