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Magna Carta - Making of Bridges Act 1297

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
MAGNA CHARTA.The GREAT CHARTER,Made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third, and confirmed by King Edward the First in the Five and twentieth Year of His Reign Making of Bridges and Banks.

(25 Edw. 1) C A P. XV.

'NO Town nor Freeman shall be distrained *to make Bridges nor Banks, but such as of old time and of right have accustomed to make them in the time of KingHenry our Grandfather.' ✗

Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as theMaking of Bridges Act, 1297

* To make Bridges at Rivers.

✗ Q. It may be a Matter of Doubt, whether this marginal Alteration is proper to be adopted: The Original appears to speak of Banks as well as Bridges; and if, instead of ad Riparias, we read aut Riparias, as it is printed in 2 Inst. the Passage will be perfectly intelligible, and the old Translation just. It is true, in some Statutes, the Word Ripari, as Lord Coke explains it, signifies the Water or River running between the Banks,...

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