Magna Carta

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

I've never seen the original but now this great little website provides a close-up view with full transcription, translation and context.

http://linklaters.onlineculture.co.uk/magnacarta/

[cee-dee]

I see a survivor to the present day is "moveable goods" which in property transactions in Scotland are referred to as "The Moveables".

That is, things that are being included in the sale of the property (like furnishings) but their value is deducted from the property price for Taxation purposes.

[ed_blackadder_1]

I saw it in Salisbury cathedral years ago amazing that it is 800 years old.

[astrologica]

Wow! Thanks for that link Sir Art......fascinating stuff!

[evoman3957]

and there's Robin Hood making John out to be some sort of Bad Guy..............who can you believe eh!!

[cee-dee]

John was the bad guy, it was the Barons that forced him to agree to sign the Magna Carta to limit his demands.

[evoman3957]

Did you know Magna Carta is an anagram of A Tarmac Nag.............I bet if John had know that, He wouldn't have signed it.

[cee-dee]

John didn't sign it, he only attached his seal.

[evoman3957]

You rang!!

[evoman3957]

I knew that really though........just a little snippet of information I picked up which is quite interesting:

In fact, King John did sign the draft of the Charter that was hammered out in the tent on Charter Island at Runnymede on 15 - 18 June 1215, but it took the clerks and scribes working in the royal offices some time after everyone went home to prepare the final copies, which were then sealed and delivered to the appropriate officials. In those days, legal documents were sealed to make them official, not signed. (Even today, many legal documents are not considered effective without the seal of a notary public or corporate official, and printed legal forms such as deeds say "L.S." next to the signature lines. That stands for the Latin locus signilli ("place of the seal"), signifying that the signer is using a signature as a substitute for a seal.) When William the Conqueror (and his wife) signed the Accord of Winchester (Image) in 1072, for example, they and all the bishops signed with crosses, as illiterate people would later do, but it was because it was the legal practice, not because the bishops could not write their own names.

[bankhaunter]

You will note not much of it is now still part of the law.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/contents

[electric*mayhem*band]

QI, Arthur.