NOUN
- the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
How To Use The Great Charter In A Sentence
- The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
- These laws they called Magna Carta, or the great charter; and they all came in armor, and took John by surprise at Windsor. Young Folks' History of England
- And by another statute made in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward, it is enacted, that no man shall be attached by any accusation, nor forejudged of life, or limb, nor his lands, tenements, goods nor chattels seized into the King's hands, against the form of the GREAT CHARTER and the LAW OF THE LAND; Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864.
- And by another statute made in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward, it is enacted, that no man shall be attached by any accusation, not forejudged of life, or limb, nor his lands, tenements, goods nor chattels seized into the King's hands, against the form of the GREAT CHARTER and the LAW OF THE Message of His Excellency Joseph E. Brown, to the Extra Session of the Legislature, Convened March 10th, 1864, Upon the Currency Act; Secret Sessions of Congress; The Late Conscription Act; The Unconstitionality of the Act Suspending the Privilege of the
- And whereas also, by authority of parliament, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward III., it is declared and enacted, That no man should be forejudged of life or limb, against the form of the Great Charter and law of the land; and, by the said Great The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
- The Great Charter confirmed previous royal charters and incorporates previous liberties, privileges and exemptions, which the city had formerly enjoyed.
- The spirit of the Great Charter was the limitation of the powers of the king, keeping them within the bounds of the feudal law of the land.
