The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede Meadows near London. It was annulled just a few weeks later, and ...

Peter Sorrell, 65, carried a copy of the Magna Carta throughout his trial and insisted the court had no jurisdiction. But a ...

Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna Carta for just $27.50 from a London legal book dealer, Sweet & Maxwell, according to a news release. British researchers from King’s ...

The original Magna Carta, signed into existence by King John in 1215, remains today one of the most significant documents in Western legal history. It was the first to enunciate the radical principle ...

AN inspector for the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has expressed concern over the controversial Section 38 of the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, echoing the same grievances of ...

Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a copy from 1327 when it was purchased ...

On this day in 2015, a unique 1216 edition of the Magna Carta went on display in the North-East for the first time in its 799 ...

“My reaction was one of amazement and, in a way, awe that I should have managed to find a previously unknown Magna Carta,” Carpenter told NBC. The PEOPLE App is now available in the Apple App Stor ...

Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited the monarch’s authority and protected individual rights. Now, scholars ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to ...