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To: SunkenCiv

Under the Great Charter, you could not take a mans home to pay for a debt. This is incorporated into most state laws with Homestead provisions.

If he was a person who moved from place to place and had for instance a wagon and used it for business, you could not seize his way of making a living.

There are numerous clauses relating to civil rights.
Not easy to read though in the Old English!


8 posted on 06/16/2013 3:18:25 AM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: djf
Here are a bunch of translations in modern english:
Magna Carta in Modern English
9 posted on 06/16/2013 4:20:40 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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