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Pax regia multiplex est; alia data manu sua, quam Angli uocant kinges hand salde grid; alia die qua primum coronatus est, ipsa habet viii dies; in Natali Domini viii dies et octo dies Pasche et octo
Pentecostes; alia per breue suum data; alia quam habent iiii chemini, id est Watlingestrete, Fosse,
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English nobility. The
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Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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symbolized the continuity from Edward the
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argues that what the work offers instead are "apparently original observations of and comments on the English law of the author's day."
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Eine anglonormannische Übersetzung des 12. Jahrhunderts von Articuli Wilhelemi, Leges Eadwardi und Genealogia Normannorum
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