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Original Latin

XXI

Comites et barones non amercientur nisi per pares suos, et non nisi secundum modum delicti.

21

Earls and barons are not to be amerced except by their peers, and not except in proportion to the nature of the offence.

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Clause 55 (The 1215 Magna Carta)

Magna Carta 1215
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