Note 578 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 3)
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Subsequent practice did not conform to this rule. One novel disseisin, or one mort d’ancestor might be held by itself; and complaint was made in 1258 that the sheriffs proclaimed in the market places that all knights and freeholders must assemble for such an inquest, and when they came not, amerced them at will (pro voluntate sua). See Petition of Barons, c. 19 (Sel. Charters, 385).