The Great Charter (‘Magna Carta 1215’) is Real Common Law…
“It is agreed by all our historians… that the ‘Great Charter’ of ‘King John’ was, for the most part, compiled from the ‘ancient customs’ of the realm, or the laws of ‘Edward the Confessor’; by which they mean the ‘old common law’, which was established under our Saxon princes…”
Blackstone’s Introduction to the (Great) Charters; Blackstone’s Law Tracts, p. 289
“It (‘Magna Carta 1215’) was for the most part declaratory of the principal grounds of the fundamental laws of England…”
“They (‘Magna Carta 1215’ & ‘Carta de Foresta 1217’)… were, for the most part, but declarations of the
‘ancient common laws’… of England, to the observation & keeping whereof; the king (the government) was bound & sworn…”
Sir Edward Coke (Chief Justice), Preface to 2 Coke’s Institutes.
“It is agreed by all our historians… that the ‘Great Charter’ of ‘King John’ was, for the most part, compiled from the ‘ancient customs’ of the realm, or the laws of ‘Edward the Confessor’; by which they mean the ‘old common law’, which was established under our Saxon princes…”
Blackstone’s Introduction to the (Great) Charters; Blackstone’s Law Tracts, p. 289
“It (‘Magna Carta 1215’) was for the most part declaratory of the principal grounds of the fundamental laws of England…”
“They (‘Magna Carta 1215’ & ‘Carta de Foresta 1217’)… were, for the most part, but declarations of the
‘ancient common laws’… of England, to the observation & keeping whereof; the king (the government) was bound & sworn…”
Sir Edward Coke (Chief Justice), Preface to 2 Coke’s Institutes.
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