Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volumes 1-4A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, 1791 - Droit |
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... privilege their perfons , their estates , or their domeftics ; that they may lift under party banners ; may grant or with - hold fupplies ; may vote with or vote against a popular or unpopular administration ; but upon confiderations ...
... privilege their perfons , their estates , or their domeftics ; that they may lift under party banners ; may grant or with - hold fupplies ; may vote with or vote against a popular or unpopular administration ; but upon confiderations ...
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... privilege or gift to fuch as obey the law ; but do conftantly come armed with a penalty de- nounced against tranfgreffors , either exprefsly defining the nature and quantity of the punishment , or else leaving it to the difcretion of ...
... privilege or gift to fuch as obey the law ; but do conftantly come armed with a penalty de- nounced against tranfgreffors , either exprefsly defining the nature and quantity of the punishment , or else leaving it to the difcretion of ...
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... privilege is confirmed to them by feveral acts of parliament 2 . SUCH is the custom of gavelkind in Kent and some other parts of the kingdom ( though perhaps it was also general till the Norman conqueft ) which ordains , among other ...
... privilege is confirmed to them by feveral acts of parliament 2 . SUCH is the custom of gavelkind in Kent and some other parts of the kingdom ( though perhaps it was also general till the Norman conqueft ) which ordains , among other ...
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... privileges . Ir is enacted by this ftatute 27 Hen . VIII , 1. That the dominion of Wales fhall be for ever united to the kingdom of England . 2. That all Welfhmen born fhall have the fame liberties as other the king's fubjects . 3. That ...
... privileges . Ir is enacted by this ftatute 27 Hen . VIII , 1. That the dominion of Wales fhall be for ever united to the kingdom of England . 2. That all Welfhmen born fhall have the fame liberties as other the king's fubjects . 3. That ...
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... privileges , ( fuch as having courts within itself , independent of the procefs of Westminster - hall , ) and fome other immaterial peculiarities , hardly more than are to be found in many counties of England itself . THE kingdom of ...
... privileges , ( fuch as having courts within itself , independent of the procefs of Westminster - hall , ) and fome other immaterial peculiarities , hardly more than are to be found in many counties of England itself . THE kingdom of ...
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Page 343 - These are either as a judge, as the keeper of the king's peace, as a ministerial officer of the superior courts of justice, or as the king's bailiff. In his judicial capacity he is to hear and determine all causes of forty shillings...
Page 56 - The remedial part of a law is so necessary a consequence of the former two, that laws must be very vague and imperfect without it, for in vain would rights be declared, in vain directed to be observed, if there were no method of recovering and asserting those rights, when wrongfully withheld or invaded. This is what we mean, properly, when we speak of the protection of the law.
Page 54 - Those rights then which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are ; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
Page 69 - For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation: as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from according to his private sentiments...
Page 163 - It will not therefore be expected that we should enter into the examination of this law, with any degree of minuteness: since, as the same learned author assures us,(£) it is much better to be learned out of the rolls of parliament, and other records, and by precedents, and continual experience, than can be expressed by any one man.
Page 469 - Corporations sole consist of one person only and his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had.
Page 235 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 67 - Whence it is that in our law the goodness of a custom depends upon its having been used time out of mind; or, in the solemnity of our legal phrase, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. This it is that gives it its weight and authority : and of this nature are the maxims and customs which compose the common law, or lex non scripta, of this kingdom.
Page 139 - In this and similar cases the Legislature alone can, and, indeed, frequently does. interpose and compel the individual to acquiesce, but how does it interpose and compel ? Not by absolutely stripping the subject of his property in an arbitrary manner, but by giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained.
Page 155 - In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching and punishing the conduct (not indeed of the king...