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Liberty of Subject (1354)

1354 CHAPTER 3 28 Edw 3

X1X2The STATUTE of The Twenty-eighth Year of King Edward III.

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X1The original text of this Act was not modern English. The traditional translation appears first with obsolete characters modernised. The original text (as an image) appears second.

X2In the old Printed Copies this is intituled 'Statutum apud Weftmonafterium de libertatibus Londoniarum:' and in MS. Harl. 4999, 'The Statute of Weftminfter of the Liberties of London.' [MS. Harl. 4999 refers to one of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Library.]

III None shall be condemned without due Process of Law.

ITEM, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, shall be put out of Land or Tenement, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to Death, without being brought in Answer by due Process of the Law.