There is in existence a couple of charters dated A.
They entered the house and carried away seven charters and writings, so the nuns complained later[1362]; what else they did in that quiet spot and whether the nunnery of Marrick on the hill above escaped them history will not tell us.
They had deposited all their money and charters with the abbess and when they wanted any they had asked her for it; but she was merely the guardian of their private incomes, which were never merged in a common stock[2125].
It would be better to give them all charters of incorporation; but still he would make that permissive.
In the subsequent reign of his son, the great charters were confirmed with some supplemental acts.
Ten of the States have no banks; those who have may abolish theirs, and suffer their charters to expire.
He observed, that it had been said that granting charters of incorporation was a high prerogative of Government.
The constitution of Britain is neither the magna charta of John, nor the habeas corpus act, nor all the charters put together; it is what the Parliament wills.
His impression might, perhaps, be the stronger, because he well recollected that a power to grant charters of incorporation had been proposed in the General Convention and rejected.
But since charters are sometimes fraudulently drawn and gifts falsely taken to be made when they are not, recourse must therefore be had to the country and the neighborhood so that the truth may be declared.
We will immediately return all hostages and charters delivered to us by Englishmen as security for the peace or for the performance of loyal service.
We will immediately return the son of Llywelyn, all the Welsh hostages, and the charters which were delivered to us as security for the peace.
These medieval borough charters are very varied, and represent all stages of development and all grades of franchise.
They sought charters to require all craftsmen to belong to the guild of their craft, to have legal control of the craft work, and be able to expel any craftsman for inobedience.
Henry issued charters restoring customs which had been subordinated to royal impositions by previous Kings, which set a precedent for later Kings.
Not only must the old feudal privileges go, but with them the old feudal grants, the chartersof oppression in the muniment chests.
These charters the peasants insisted must be destroyed.
Nearly all at their foundation, or shortly after, received charters which conferred the franchises of the mother country on the colonists.
But long before this law was passed all the bigger towns had already obtained charters to the same effect.
The renewal of these charters on one occasion cost Hythe £17 as its share.
A list of the charters granted to them follows, ibid.
These payments were over and above the sums which had to be given for the charters of each separate Port, and which were also a heavy cost.
The instance of charters forfeited on these grounds are very frequent.
In the first eighty years of the fifteenth century the kings only issued nine charters of this kind.
Here and there still are found toll roads and toll bridges built under charters granted a century ago, but tolls on public thoroughfares are for the most part abolished.
These charters and franchises are granted sparingly in most European countries.
He rages as he sees them abandoning charters that gave men rights, and acceptingcharters that only give them prohibitions.
The nobles mortgaged their estates for mere trifles to Jews and unbelievers, or conferred charters of immunity upon the towns and communes within their fiefs, for sums which, a few years previously, they would have rejected with disdain.
Three of the colonies, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, were settled under charters that were never surrendered.
These written constitutions were charters obtained from the King, in which were granted to the people of the colony certain privileges and rights of self-government which the English government could not justly take away from them.
In the colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts their charters were adopted as constitutions without any change, except, of course, the annulment of obedience to the English king.
Three others, Virginia, Georgia and New Hampshire possessed charters for a while, but eventually became royal colonies.
Connecticut and Rhode Island, in fact, merely declared their allegiance to England absolved, and retained unchanged their old charters as their fundamental law.
The Constitutions of the original thirteen States were naturally formed after the model of the chartersenjoyed by the New England colonies.
A channel between Eastham and Orleans was once forced by the sea, and various routes through Yarmouth, Barnstable and Sandwich have been surveyed, and charters granted, but ships still round Race Point.
The policy of bribing certain legislators to vote for bank, railroad, insurance company and other charterswas extended to reach down into ward politics, and to corrupt the voters at the springs of power.
Astor was a stockholder in at least four banks, the charters of which had been obtained or renewed by trickery and fraud, or both.
In New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other States a continuous rush to get bank charters ensued.
The members [of the Legislature] themselves sometimes participated in the benefits growing out of charters created by their own votes; .
Time after time members were bribed to pass bills granting charters for corporations or other special privileges.
Were the bribers ever punished, their illicitly gotten charters declared forfeited, and themselves placed under the ban of virtuous society?
Seconded or instigated by certain traders, he set out to get one of those useful and invaluable bank charters for his backers.
Horace Greeley was actuated by pure humanitarian motives, but such incorporators as Prosper Wetmore, Ulshoeffer, and others were, or had been, notorious in lobbying by bribing bank charters through the New York Legislature.
These corporations were vested with enormous powers and privileges which, in effect, constituted them as sovereign rulers, although their charters were subject to revision or amendment.
After the charters of the companies were annulled or expired, the landgraves kept up the practice, and the merchants improved on it in various ingenious ways.
The mother country has therefore a right to withdraw these charters whenever she pleases, and to substitute such others as she may think proper.
Neither have the masters of slaves in our colonies any title to their slaves on account of any charters, which they may be able to produce, though their charters are the only source of their power.
Clerks were to be set that night to make out the charters, and two men from each county were to tarry behind their fellows to carry the charters into the countryside.
They say the King’s charters are not to be trusted.
Clerks have been scribbling charters all night, and it is our wisdom to put a bold face on it.
From time immemorial the rulers of Brabant, on succeeding to the throne, had taken an oath to maintain the liberty of their subjects; and many charters confirming ancient rights and privileges had been drawn up for the towns and communes.
Thus, this famous constitution, the best known and the most liberal of all the free charters in the Netherlands, was not a parchment drawn up at one time, but a declaration of public rights which gradually developed.
At length, upon Ash Wednesday, they stood before the King in the chapter house of Canterbury, and the charters of the King on one side and the other were read in court.
I will put myself in seisin of this liberty, and afterwards will defend myself thereupon by the help of St. Edmund, whose right our charters testify it to be.
Later, Charters became gradually more explicit as to the extent of jurisdiction (civil and criminal) conferred.
And our lord the King said: "These charters are of the same age, and emanate from the same King, Edward.
Seynt Edmunds Biri is first substituted for Beodricsworth in Charters from Edward the Confessor to the Monastery (cf.
Royal Charters granted to Abbot Henry to hold two fairs at Bury and a market at his manor of Melford.
Birch's Historical Chartersof the City of London, 1887, pp.
I know not what I can say, unless it be that these charters contradict each other.
Richard I confirms by Charters the Manor of Mildenhall to the Abbey.
Charter of Henry I confirming the Charters of Canute and Edward the Confessor.
A state, to carry out its purposes of internal improvement, charters an intrastate railway or ferry company with power to charge tolls and exercise the right of eminent domain.
On the other hand, the right of the separate states to grant charters of incorporation is unquestionable.
In the Convention of 1787 which framed the Constitution, Mr. Madison advocated giving Congress the power to grant charters of incorporation.
The right to grant corporate charters for ordinary business purposes is an attribute of sovereignty belonging to the states, not to the General Government.
They were planted in the free charters of self-government under which the English colonies grew up, and our Revolution only freed us from the dominion of a foreign power whose government was at variance with those institutions.
Not deriving their charters from the national authorities, they would never have those inducements to meddle in general elections which have led the Bank of the United States to agitate and convulse the country for upward of two years.
I recommend that the Federal charters thus to be granted shall be voluntary, at least until experience justifies mandatory provisions.
The banks proceeded to make loans upon this surplus, and thus converted it into banking capital, and in this manner it has tended to multiply bank charters and has had a great agency in producing a spirit of wild speculation.
In order that these plans may go forward, action should be taken at the present session on the question of renewing the banks' charters and thereby insuring a continuation of the policies and present usefulness of the Federal reserve system.
He was disposed to place all their separate and individualcharters on a procrustean bed, and shape them all into uniformity simply by reducing the whole to a nullity.
In the Parliament held in Edinburgh in June 1451 he was present, and received back his charters in full amity and kindness, to the great satisfaction and pleasure of "all gud Scottis men.
The house was burnt in Queen Mary's time, and the few chartersthat survived that disaster were mostly destroyed when the English came to Scotland in Cromwell's time.
She accordingly went to Cowthally, and unfolded her plans to Lord Somerville, showing him the charters relating to the lands in Midlothian, which proved that her son was at any rate heir to a very considerable property.
The earliest mention of this place occurs in charters of David I.
England, so that by that means most of the oldcharters and evidents were lost.
The Orthodox clergy were exempted from the poll-tax, and in the charters granted to them it was expressly declared that if any one committed blasphemy against the faith of the Russians he should be put to death.
Special decisions, instruction to particular officials, and charters for particular communes of proprietors were much more common than general legislative measures.
For this purpose they paid frequent visits to the Tartar Suzerain, made rich presents to his wives and courtiers, received from him charters confirming their authority, and sometimes even married members of his family.
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