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WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF , two See also:English statutes passed during the reign of See also:Edward I, See also:Parliament having met at Westminster on the 22nd of See also:April 1275, its See also:main See also:work was the See also:consideration of the See also:statute of Westminster I. This was See also:drawn up, not in Latin, but in See also:Norman See also:French, and was passed " See also:par le assentement See also:des erceveskes, eveskes, abbes, priurs, contes, barons, et la communaute de la tere ileokes somons." Its See also:pro-visions can be best summarized in the words of See also:Stubbs (Const. Hist. cap. xiv.) : " This See also:act is almost a See also:code by itself ; it contains fifty-one clauses, and covers the whole ground of legislation. Its See also:language now recalls that of Canute or See also:Alfred, now anticipates that of our own See also:day; on the one See also:hand See also:common right is to be done to all, as well poor as See also:rich, without respect of persons; on the other, elections are to be See also:free, and no See also:man is by force, malice or menace, to disturb them. The spirit of the See also:Great See also:Charter is not less discernible: excessive amercements, abuses of wardship, irregular demands for feudal See also:aids, are forbidden in the same words or by amending enactments. The See also:inquest See also:system of See also:Henry II., the See also:law of See also:wreck, and the institution of coroners, See also:measures of See also:Richard and his ministers, come under See also:review as well as the Provisions of See also:Oxford and the Statute of See also:Marlborough." The second statute of Westminster was passed in the parliament of 1285. Like the first statute it is a code in itself, and contains the famous clause De donis conditionalibus (q.v.), " one of the fundamental institutes of the See also:medieval See also:land law of See also:England." Stubbs says of it: " The law of See also:dower, of See also:advowson, of See also:appeal for felonies, is largely amended; the institution of justices of See also:assize is remodelled, and the abuses of manorial See also:jurisdiction repressed; the statute De religiosis, the statutes of Merton and See also:Gloucester, are amended and re-enacted. Every clause has a bearing on the growth of the later law." The statute Quia Emptores of 1290 is sometimes called the statute of Westminster III.

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