Stone tablets survive from Mesopotamia bearing laws written in Sumerian around 2100 B.C. Magna Carta, which comprises 63 clauses spelling out in dense legalese some of the basic laws of medieval ...

be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.... Article Thirty-nine of the Magna Carta (1215 ... state constitutions contained clauses restraining government from ...

That clause related to the rights of 25 barons to oversee the rights granted to them in Magna Carta, and if the chief justice or any of his officials "offend[ed] in any respect against any man ...

This agreement was the Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’ in Latin. It contained a total of 63 different clauses, setting out rules concerning land ownership, taxes and people’s legal ...

Taken aback, my unprofessional reply was ‘1215 or 1225 Magna Carta, and should I argue the clauses about fish weirs and levying scutage?’ After minutes of increasing exasperation on my side ...

The Great Charter of Liberties or Magna Carta agreed between King John and ... world wide importance lies in the interpretation of the clauses from which grew the right of the freedom of the ...

Petitioner Sonny Matula argues that the execution bond provision in the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers ... of the Constitution’s equal protection clause. The petitioners also claim that ...

In the seventeenth century, Coke sought to check the arbitrary rule of the Stuart monarchs by emphasizing that the “law of the land” clause in the Magna Carta encompassed both procedural ...