nd chattels in like manner as did the testator when alive.

If a man dies intestate, his goods shall be administered by his
next and most lawful friends appointed. Such administrators shall
have the same powers and duties as executors and be accountable as
are executors to the ecclesiastical court.

Children born to English parents in parts beyond the sea may
inherit from their ancestors in the same manner as those born in
the nation.

A person grieved by a false oath in a town court proceeding may
appeal to the King's Bench or Common Pleas, regardless of any town
franchise.

The Court of the King's Bench worked independently of the King. It
was exceptional to find the king sitting on his bench. It became
confined to the established common law.

Decisions of the common law courts are appealable to the House of
Lords. The king's council members who are not peers, in particular
the justices and the Masters of the Chancery, are summoned by the
House of Lords only as mere assistants. Parliament can change the
common law by statute. The right of a peer to be tried for capital
crimes by a court composed of his peers was established. There is
a widespread belief that all the peers are by right the king's
councilors.

No attorney may practice law and also be a justice of assize. No
justice may take any gift except from the king nor give counsel to
any litigant before him.

In 1390, there was another statute against maintainers,
instigators, barretors, procurers, and embracers of quarrels and
inquests because of great and outrageous oppressions of parties in
court. Because this encouraged maintenance by the retinue of lords
with fees, robes, and other liveries, such maintainers were to be
put out of their lords' service, and could not be retained by
another lord. No one was to give livery to anyone else, except
household members and those retained for life for peace or for
war. Justices of the Peace were authorized to inquire about
yeomen, or other of lower estate than squire, bearing livery of
any lord.

Whereas it is contained in the Magna Carta that none shall be
imprisoned nor put out of his freehold, nor of his franchises nor
free custom, unless it be by the law of the land; it is
established that from henceforth none shall be taken by petition
or suggestion made to the king unless by indictment of good and
lawful people of the same neighborhood where such deeds be done,
in due manner, or by process made by wri