A Treatise in Commendation of the Laws Of EnglandReprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
Contents
Life of SIR JOHN FORTESCUE | v |
List of all the known Works of Sir John Fortescue | lii |
Lord CLERMONTs Preface to De Laudibus | lxi |
DE LAUDIBUS LEGUM ANGLIE | 3 |
He proves that a Prince by the Laws may be made | 11 |
A Repetition of his Exhortation | 17 |
A King whose Government is political cannot | 26 |
How Kingdoms ruled by Regal Government first | 34 |
The Inconveniencies of that Law which tries Causes | 66 |
The Civil Law defective in doing Justice | 76 |
Jurors How chosen and sworn | 84 |
The way of Proceeding in Capital Cases | 93 |
The Reasons why Inquests are not made up | 105 |
respect to their Proceeding by Juries | 111 |
The Chancellors Answer | 117 |
The Prince asks the Reason why some of | 124 |
The Prince abridges what the Chancellor had been | 40 |
The Law of Nature in all Countries is the same 49 239 | 49 |
The Difference between the Civil Laws and | 59 |
The Chancellors Answer | 130 |
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