Note 193 — PART III. MAGNA CARTA: ITS FORM AND CONTENTS.
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Pollock and Maitland, I. 150, emphasize this disparity. “In form a donation, a grant of franchises freely made by the king, in reality a treaty extorted from him by the confederate estates of the realm, ... it is also a long and miscellaneous code of laws.” Cf. also Ibid., I. 658.