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The Act sets the succession to the Crown in the Protestant line and requires future sovereigns to join communion with the Church of England and to take the Coronation Oath and Declaration.
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Land grants and conveyances remain valid without tenant attornment, and tenants are protected from prejudice for rent paid before notice of the grant.
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This provision declares several civil rights and limits royal power, including petitioning, free elections, parliamentary speech, and protection against excessive bail, fines, and cruel punishments.
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People may not be condemned, dispossessed, detained, imprisoned, disinherited, or put to death without due process of law.
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The King or Council must not take a person by petition or suggestion unless the matter comes by indictment, lawful presentment, or common-law writ process.
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A landlord or other person distraining for rent may sell distrained goods after five days if the tenant does not replevy them with sufficient security, and certain grain or hay may also be seized, kept on site, and sold in default of replevy.
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Grantees of reversions, and lessees, can enforce lease covenants against the other side in the same way as the original parties could.
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Freemen must not be taken, imprisoned, or otherwise harmed except by lawful judgment of peers or by the law of the land, and justice or right must not be sold, denied, or delayed.
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A person must not be required to answer unless there is due process of law.
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Joint tenants and tenants in common can be compelled to partition the land or hereditaments they hold together.
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Certain joint tenants and tenants in common can be required to divide the land or hereditaments they hold together by a Chancery writ.
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This petition says people should not be taxed, forced to make loans, forced to house soldiers, or punished under martial law without lawful authority.
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A freeholder may sell land, but the buyer must hold it from the chief lord on the same services and customs as before; the statute also forbids the land from coming into mortmain and applies only to fee simple land.
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Bailiffs who should account to their lords can be compelled to come before the sheriff if they try to avoid distraint; farmers must not waste or dispose of farmed property during their term unless specially licensed in writing.
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The King commands that peace be maintained and that common right be done to everyone without favoritism.