Note 562 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 2)

Such was the law as late as 1285. The Statute of Westminster II. (13 Edward I. c. 5) authoritatively explains that, when any one had wrongfully presented a clerk to a vacant church, the real patron could not recover his advowson except by a writ of right “quod habet terminari per duellum vel per magnam assisam.”