Note 977 — Chapter VI · JOHN AND THE BARONS 1214–1215
Reading edition
W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 218. It need scarcely be remarked that the charter contains not a word on the subject. The argument evidently was “whatever is not in the charter is contrary to it”; in other words, “omission is prohibition.” The fact that such an argument might be used on both sides was of course conveniently ignored.