Note 12 — Civil Disabilities of the Jews
Reading edition
The answer given by the lay barons at the Parliament of Merton in 1236 to the proposal of the prelates to make the English law of legitimacy correspond with that of other countries. Sir James H. Ramsay, The Dawn of the Constitution, pp. 77, 78, following the text of the Statutes of the Realm, reads mutare in the active, instead of mutari in the passive.