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Definition of Magna carta

1. Noun. The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215.

Definition of Magna carta

1. Proper noun. A charter, granted by King John to the barons at Runnymede in 1215, that is a basis of English constitutional tradition. ¹

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Literary usage of Magna carta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"There can be no controversy either that the Jury here referred to means "12 men," not because there Is any reference to trial by Jury In magna carta, ..."

2. An Introduction to the English Historians by Charles Austin Beard (1906)
"CHAPTER V THE TRUE NATURE OF magna carta No document in the history of ... The most recent and authoritative commentary on magna carta is by Dr. McKechnie, ..."

3. Factors in Modern History by Albert Frederick Pollard (1907)
"Even magna carta, which Cromwell quoted as a fundamental, was not really ... Fortunately they failed in their attempt to perpetuate magna carta as ..."

4. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"THE magna carta IN THE CENTURY after the conquest the Saxons and Normans began to ... This was the magna carta. It contained few absolutely new provisions, ..."

5. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1836)
"OF THE VARIOUS PROMULGATIONS OF magna carta^ (BY THE EDITOR.) The Charter of the first year of Henry 1st, AD 1101. The confirmation of'lhc Charter of Henry ..."

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