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| charter | a written document from a government or ruler, which grants certain rights to an individual, a group, an organization or people in general |
| contract | a binding agreement between two or more persons |
| custom | an accepted practice or way of behaving that is followed by tradition |
| common law | accumulated legal opinions of judges explaining their decisions in court cases, while providing guidelines for later judgements |
| due process of law | protections against arbitrary deprivation of life liberty and property |
| feudalism | a political system in which land is given by a noble to his vassals in exchange for personal allegiance |
| Magna Carta | the Great Charter of freedom granted in 1215 by King John of England by demand of his barons |
| monarch | king or queen |
| manor | form of economic life in the Middle Ages, when most people were involved in agriculture and land was divided into self-contained farms or manors |
| Parliament | the British legislature, which consists of 2 houses |
| rights of Englishmen | basic rights, established over time, that all subjects of the English monarch were understood to have including the right not to be kept in prison without a trail and right to trial by jury |
| royal charter | a document granted by the monarch |
| subject | all people governed by a monarch |
| tenet | principles or doctrines |
| vassal | in feudal times, a person granted the use of land by a feudal lord in return for military or other service |
