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Meaning of Magna assisa
The grand assize.
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Concept of “Magna Assisa”
Traditional meaning of magna assisa in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) The grand assize; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 351. Magna Charta: the Great Charter. It was granted by John at Runnymede in 1215, at the same time with the Carta de Foresta, and confirmed by Henry III. in the ninth year of his reign, and also by the 25 Edw. I. This latter charter, the Confirmatio chartarum, is the one commonly referred to as the Great Charter, the basis of the English constitution. Magna Charta contained thirty-seven chapters, for the most part concerning landed estates and the rights of freemen; see 1st Book (“The Rights of Persons”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 127; 4 id. 423. Magna culpa: gross negligence. Magna componere paivis: to compare great things with small. Magna serjeantia: grand serjeanty. Magnum cape: see CAPE. Magnum concilium (the great council): Parliament.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Magna Assisa”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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