The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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The Resonance of the Magna Carta
Very little of the charter is still in the Testapture book today. It's only that clauses relating to the church, freedom of the church and a child by jury remain. But the resonance is extraordinarily important for later English law. I think that we use later the clauses about widows, for instance. The rights of widows and to their da say that a child whose parents died when he is young should inherit the fuller state when he comes of age. All of those, of course, do have resonance in laterEnglish law.
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