HIST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Annates, Declaration Of Nullity, Indulgence
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The english common law is distinguished from the roman law, and canon law wherein the head of state can issue new laws. The problem for england was that new legislation was sometimes needed. Head of state comes to issue new laws. Law was the custom and tradition of england. Ideas of the english parliament has been around for a while. English parliament = english kings can now issue new laws. Going to develop into new houses: house of lords and house of. The house of commons: two knights from each shire or rural county, two burgesses from each chartered town or city (the lesser country knights had more in common with the rich. Commoners of the town than with the great lords or the lower clergy). The house of lords: tenants-in-chief of the king = the kings direct vassals, both lords and spiritual (the 2 archbishops, bishops and great abbots) and lords temporal (earls, dukes and great barons).
