The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est. Co. Litt. 36. The witnesses being dead, the truth of charters must of necessity be referred to the country, i.e., a jury.
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