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63) wherein they are given as an explanation of the words, “by the Law of the Land,” mentioned in the Great Charter. And the Great Charter itself, as well as this particular Act, and many other excellent Acts of K. Ed. III. is expressly cited and confirmed in an Act of the 16th Cha. I. c. 10. whereby the “due Process of the Law” (or “the ordinary Course of the Law,” see §. v.) is again re-established, in opposition to the