Charters, statutes and law books of medieval and early modern Britain: Magna Carta and its forest companion, the baronial provisions, the royal assizes and constitutions of the twelfth century, the Welsh laws of Hywel, the Scottish king's law books and the one written English constitution of 1653. A document belongs here when its cited article describes a charter or law book of England, Wales or Scotland. It excludes Irish law tracts and Continental charters.
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Assize of Clarendon (Wikipedia)
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The Assize of Clarendon was an act of Henry II of England in 1166 that began a transformation of English law and led to trial by jury in common law countries worldwide, and that established assize courts.
View the Source Charter of the Forest (Wikipedia)
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The Charter of the Forest of 1217 re-established rights of access for free men to the royal forest that had been eroded by King William the Conqueror and his heirs.
View the Source Constitutions of Clarendon (Wikipedia)
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The Constitutions of Clarendon were a set of legislative procedures enacted by Henry II of England in 1164.
View the Source Cyfraith Hywel (Wikipedia)
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Cyfraith Hywel (Welsh: [ˈkəvraiθ ˈhəwɛl]; 'laws of Hywel'), also known as Welsh law (Latin: Leges Walliæ), was the system of law practised in medieval Wales before its final conquest by England.
View the Source Instrument of Government (Wikipedia)
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The Instrument of Government was the first constitution of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and was also the first codified and written constitution in England.
View the Source Magna Carta (Wikipedia)
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Magna Carta (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter"), sometimes spelled Magna Charta, is a royal charter of rights sealed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
View the Source Molmutine Laws (Wikipedia)
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The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the Britons by Dyfnwal Moelmud, who is also referred by the Latin form of his name, Dunvallo Molmutius (from which the Molmutine Laws take their title).
View the Source Petition of Right (Wikipedia)
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The Petition of Right, passed on 7 June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.
View the Source Wikipedia: Provisions of Oxford
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The Provisions of Oxford (Latin: Provisiones Oxonie or Oxoniae) were constitutional reforms to the government of late medieval England adopted during the Oxford Parliament of 1258 to resolve a dispute between Henry III of England and his barons.
View the Source Quadripartitus (Wikipedia)
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The title Quadripartitus refers to an extensive legal collection compiled during the reign of Henry I, king of England (1100-1135).
View the Source Regiam Majestatem (Wikipedia)
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The Regiam Majestatem is the earliest surviving work giving a comprehensive digest of the Law of Scotland.
View the Source Statute of Rhuddlan (Wikipedia)
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The Statute of Rhuddlan (Welsh: Statud Rhuddlan), also known as the Statutes of Wales (Latin: Statuta Walliae or Valliae) or as the Statute of Wales (Latin: Statutum Walliae or Valliae), was a royal ordinance by Edward I of England, which gave the constitutional basis for the government of the Principality of Wales from 1284 until 1536.
View the Source Udal Law (Wikipedia)
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Udal law is a Norse-derived legal system, found in Shetland and Orkney in Scotland, and in Manx law in the Isle of Man.
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