Victorian Consolidated Legislation
[1297] 25 Edward I (Magna Carta) c. XXIX
No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or
liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any other wise
destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgement
of his peers, or by the law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not
deny or defer to any man either justice or right.
[1351-2] 25 Edward III St. V c. IV
Item, whereas it is contained in the great charter of the franchises of
England that one shall be imprisoned nor put out of his freehold, nor of his
franchises nor free custom, unless it be by the law of the land; it is
accorded assented, and stablished, that from henceforth none shall be taken by
petition or suggestion made to our Lord the King, or to his council, unless it
be by indictment or presentment of good and lawful people of the same
neighbourhood where such deeds be done, in due manner, or by process made by
writ original at the common law; nor that none be out of his franchises, nor
of his freeholds, unless he be duly brought into answer, and forejudged of the
same by the course of the law; and if any thing be done against the same, it
shall be redressed and holden for none.
[1354] 28 Edward III c. III
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.
[1368] 42 Edward III c. III
. . . It is assented and accorded, for the good governance of the commons,
that no man be put to answer without presentment before justices, or matter of
record, or by due process and writ original, according to the old law of the
land; And it any thing from henceforth be done to the contrary, it shall be
void in the law, and holden for error.
[1405-6] 7 Henry IV c. I
. . . And that the peace within the realm be holden and kept, so that all the
King's liege people and subjects may from henceforth safely and peaceably go,
come, and abide, according to the laws and usages of the same realm; And that
good justice and equal right be done to every person; saving to the same our
Lord the King his regalty and prerogative.