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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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52 porated. and have perpetuil succession m fact deed and nam. 1' the name of • • • ma; stYer all\ plead and be lmpl< led, and siii ml l < > tor all manner o( rases • • • and iso answ. i md defend themselves under and by the mime aforesaid in the same caus< * " * in any eoi rts md places within the Qin n's Higheni don ions Whatsoever they m V 1 In a certifn de required by Jam. 1. the seventh year of his reign, the Vice Chancellor < Oxford certified anions: other thins;- that Oxford Univ rsii \ is corpus politicum ct corporation. consistent ex Canccllario, Magistris ct Scholaribus ciusdon Univcrtt* tat is—body politic and corporate, consisting of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the same University." It thus appears that the phrase, "b politie and corporate," had become established m the law on the date in question (1(510). (AyliflV. State I Oxford, II, CXXiii, exxiv.) In the History and Antiquities of the Univer of Cambridge, by Parker, 204, Paragraph VI1. is a brief reference to a grant by Henry VIII, pursuant to w h n h the Chancellor, etc., of Cambridge shit umtm corpus nomine et re: ct quod per idem nomen poeeint prost tui et clamare, etc.—shall be a body corporate and p litic in name and fact, and under that name shall ha\ < the power to pursue (sue) and summon, etc. I I Pat., Westminster, Nov. 28, in the 30th yeai 151 of his reign.) The Universities of Oxford and ( imbridge ha\ to \" < ' b n Incorporated bodies for centuries, probably fn t Under ecclesiastical grants, later under royal chart* and eventually, as now, by Act of P a r l i a m e n t They hav long ceased to be in fact or in law private r proprietary corporations. They have become in the opinion of the English people, of the nglmh Parlia••>., |^ A
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