Magna Carta

Note 672 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 3)

Reading edition

The reissue of 1216 makes no alteration here, but that of 1217 omits “et pueris,” thus protecting the wife’s “reasonable portion” but not that of the sons. The words omitted were restored in 1225. It was probably a mere clerical error.

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