Author: HOLT, J. C.
Title: Magna Carta
Description: red, Cambridge University Press. 1976. (ISBN: 9780521095747). Paperback, 21.4 x 14.9 x 1.9 cm. PLEASE READ. Our copy 1969 release. ref ZKVQ Condition fair, slight wear to cover. In 1215 Magna Carta was a failure. It was intended to secure peace and it provoked war. It pretended to state customary law and it caused disagreement and contention. It was legally valid for no more than three months, and even within that period its terms were never properly executed. Yet it was revived and re-issued in 1216, 1217 and 1225. The last version became law, to be confirmed and interpreted in Parliament and enforced in the courts of law. Nine of its chapters still stand on the English Statute Book. Of these, perhaps the most revolutionary is the law that no free man is to be imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or damaged without lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. This classic work gives an exhaustive history of the Charter: the long-term intellectual ferment from which it emanated, the political crisis which gave rise to it in 1215, and its evolution in the decades following 1215. About the Author Now retired, J.C. Holt was Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Used: Acceptable.

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