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king's and judges
The " common law " was the law that emerged as " common " throughout the realm ( as distinct from the various legal codes that preceded it, such as Mercian law, the Danelaw and the law of Wessex ) as the king's judges followed each other's decisions to create a unified common law throughout England.
In turn, lawyers and judges who operated the king's system of justice in a society strictly organized into groups would not question the right of a group to sue or be sued because to do so would bring into question the entire group-oriented society in which they operated.
Two judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces.
It was an original writ, issuing out of chancery to the judges of any subordinate court, commanding them in the king's name to proceed to judgment, but without specifying any particular judgment.
Two judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to New Haven to seek refuge from the king's forces.
When Richard I left on crusade, he appointed Geoffrey one of the five judges of the king's court, and thus a principal advisor to Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, who, as Chief Justiciar, was one of the regents during the king's absence.
He was one of the king's judges, and signed the warrant for his execution.
However history most remembers Waller as one of the king's judges and one of those who signed the death warrant.
In 1200, Pope Innocent III demanded that Church estate be free from the king's taxes and that clerics be judged only by bishops and prelates, and not civil courts and judges.
Scrope took part in the deliberations of the council of the army which resulted in the rupture of the treaty of Newport ; was appointed one of the king's judges, and attended the meetings of the court with exemplary regularity.
The House of Lords, however, ordered all the king's judges to be arrested, and excepted Scrope absolutely from pardon.
* The records of the medieval eyres, the court sessions of the king's itinerant judges.
In 1662 he was one of the judges who refused to take the declaration that the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant were unlawful oaths, and, forestalling the deposition which had been threatened as the penalty of continued non-compliance, he placed his resignation in the king's hands.
Along the trek path from the gate, an avenue of chestnut trees with sodden moss leads to a stone throne comprising three standing stones called as “ Namphogang ”, which was the pulpit of the judges from where judgments were pronounced during the active days of the king's reign from Rabdentse.
Violations of good behavior tenure at common law included " abuse of office, nonuse of office, and refusal to exercise an office ," and the " oppression and tyrannical partiality of judges, justices, and other magistrates, in the administration and under the colour of their office, could be prosecuted by information in the court of king's bench.

king's and would
It is unlikely that the very fair and loyal archbishop would do such a thing behind the king's back.
His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.
Some of the king's vassals would grow sufficiently powerful that they would become some of the strongest rulers of western Europe.
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walter, died on 13 July 1205, John became involved in a dispute with Pope Innocent III that would lead to the king's excommunication.
First, to portray the king's ancestor as a murderer would have been risky.
No nation would swap territory with other states simply, for example, because the king's daughter married.
In these circumstances it was inevitable that the king's first minister would become the de facto head of the government.
He promised " life, estate, and liberty to all who would submit to the king's authority.
The king would appoint a tribunus celerum to serve as both the tribune of Ramnes tribe in Rome and as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the Celeres.
The money to rescue the King was transferred to Germany by the emperor's ambassadors, but " at the king's peril " ( had it been lost along the way, Richard would have been held responsible ), and finally, on 4 February 1194 Richard was released.
In return for these concessions, the priesthood pledged that the king's birthday and coronation days would be celebrated annually, and that all the priests of Egypt would serve him alongside the other gods.
When the king said that he would call his friends into council and consider what he ought to do, Popilius drew a circle in the sand around the king's feet with the stick he was carrying and said, " Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.
This would have been considered tampering with the king's authority over his vassals, and was not something that William would have tolerated.
Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor.
While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.
By an ordinance of Louis Philippe I of France of 13 August 1830, it was decided that the king's children ( and his sister ) would continue to bear the arms of Orléans, that Louis-Philippe's eldest son, as Prince Royal, would bear the title of duc d ' Orléans, that the younger sons would continue to have their existing titles, and that the sister and daughters of the king would only be styled " princesses d ' Orléans ", which meant the Orléans royalty did not take the name " of France ".

king's and then
He receives an explanatory vision in the night, and then relays the content and meaning of the king's dream the following day.
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother.
The Macedonian cavalry fought in wedge formation and was stationed on the far right ; after these broke through the enemy lines they were followed by the hypaspists, elite infantrymen who served as the king's bodyguard, and then the phalanx proper.
Two days later, Antonescu forced the king to abdicate and installed the king's young son Michael ( Mihai ) on the throne, then declared himself Conducător (" Leader ") with dictatorial powers.
During the crisis concerning the Exclusion Bill in 1680, Charles at first invited William to come to England to bolster the king's position against the exclusionists, then withdrew his invitation — after which Lord Sunderland also tried unsuccessfully to bring William over but now to put pressure on Charles.
It was not until November 1, 1773 when the king's friend, Ignacy Krasicki, then Bishop of Warmia ( later Archbishop of Gniezno ), officiated at the cathedral's opening.
Warwick invaded England at the head of a Lancastrian army, and in October 1470 forced Edward to seek refuge in Burgundy, then ruled by the king's brother-in-law Charles the Bold.
Sun Tzu then ordered the execution of the king's two favored concubines, to the king's protests.
Though Charles severely tested Ussher's loyalty by negotiating with the Catholic Irish patriots, the Primate remained committed to the royal cause, though as king's fortunes waned Ussher had to move on to Bristol, Cardiff, and then to St Donat's.
He has officially succeeded his father as king in 230 BC, but the kingdom has been ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta and then taken over by the Romans who have placed Demetrius of Pharos in the young king's place.
The king's confession was then publicly announced, embarrassing him and tarnishing the prestige of the monarchy.
It was decided then, nearly three weeks before the Revolution, that in the event of < span lang =" fr "> Charles </ span >' expected proclamations, the journalistic establishment of Paris would publish vitriolic criticisms of the king's policies in an attempt to mobilize the masses.
James was then sent to Monzón, where he was entrusted to the care of William of Montreuil, the head of the Knights Templar in Spain and Provence ; the regency meanwhile fell to his great uncle Sancho, Count of Roussillon, and his son, the king's cousin, Nuño.
The king bestowed this title because in a small way during the war, and then more strongly after the war, the local people had demonstrated support for the king's politics.
The court then went to the Loire Valley, where the château de Blois and the surrounding forests were the new king's hangouts.
While Eteocles ruled Thebes, Polynices visited first king Theseus in Athens, then king Adrastus in Argos, where he married Argea, the king's daughter, after he raped her.
Vague rumors of betrayal circulated in the court, notably her supposed involvement with the conspiracies of the comte de Chalais that Chevreuse organized in 1626, then of the king's treacherous favorite, Cinq-Mars, who had been introduced to him by Richelieu.
It was here in 1255 that the first captive elephant was landed in England, The prize beast arrived at Sandwich quayside, delivered as a gift to the English monarch Henry III, from the French king, and was then taken on foot to the king's zoo at the Tower of London.
There is then a dramatic scene where Norfolk and the king's guards come to arrest Catherine and the Lady Rochford.
After Harold, by then the king's right hand man, had spoken with the rebels at Northampton, he likely realized that Tostig would not be able to retain Northumbria.
It was then held by King William, though a small part was in the hands of Robert, Count of Mortain, the king's half brother, and younger brother of Odo of Bayeux, then earl of Kent.
Prince Erik, later King Erik Ejegod, managed to talk his way out of the king's farm and fled to Zealand and then with his wife and child to Skania.

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