If the word vel, be rendered by and,, (as I think it must be, at least in some cases,) this chapter of Magna Carta will then read that no freeman shall be arrested or punished, "unless according to the sentence of his peers, and, the law of the land.
Spooner interprets a key clause in Magna Carta regarding the rights of freemen in relation to their peers and the law.
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