Note 16 — Chapter IX · Privilege of Sanctuary.
Reading edition
Reville, L’Abjuratio regni, Revue historique, vol. 50, p. 1; M. Reville contends that the law of abjuration is purely an English institution and was adopted by the Normans, from the early Anglo-Saxons. See Pl. Cr. pi. 48, 49, 89; Britton, i, 63; Leg. Edw. Conf. c, 5.