Note 1033 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 6)

Glanvill, XIV. c. 33, Fleta I. c. 3, seems by different words to indicate only the same doctrine of constructive presence, when he speaks in this connection “de morte viri sui inter brachia sua interfecti,” although laboured explanations of this passage are sometimes attempted, e.g. Coke, Second Institute, 93. Pollock and Maitland (I. 468, n.) dismiss the phrase inter brachia sua as "only a picturesque ‘common form.’"