| 1831 - 576 pages
...Parliamentary word. Magna Charta and all our statutes are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. Let us take heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta...such a fellow that he will have no sovereign' — ' I know (said Pym) how to add sovereign to the King's person, but not to his power. We cannot leave to... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1810 - 556 pages
...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna charts is such a fellow. that he will have no sovereign. I wonder this sovereign was not in tnagna charta, or in the confirmations of it. If we grant this, by implication we give a sovereign... | |
| Thomas May - Great Britain - 1812 - 560 pages
...fundamental Stipulations, or superadded Laws;) The great Sir Edward Coke said, in answer thereunto; MAGNA CHARTA is SUCH A FELLOW, THAT HE WILL HAVE NO SOVEREIGN: Let us not yield a Sovereign Power above all •ZMWS; Power -in -Law (as the Sheriff's Poi.se Comilalus)... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...npin on, it weakens Magna Charta, and all our statutes ; for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. And shall we now add it, we shall...he will have no sovereign. I wonder this sovereign wns not in Magna Cliaita, or in the confirmations of it : If we grant this, by implication we give... | |
| John Allen - Anglo-Saxons - 1830 - 262 pages
...parliamentary word. Magna Charta and all " our statutes are absolute, without any saving of " sovereign power. Let us take heed what we yield " unto. Magna Charta...such a fellow that he will have " no sovereign." " I know how to add sovereign to the " King's person," exclaimed Mr. Pym, " but not to his '' power. We... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 578 pages
...Parliamentary word. Magna * Charta and all our statutes are absolute, without any saving of ' sovereign power. Let us take heed what we yield unto. Magna ' Charta is such a fellow that lie will have no sovereign.' — ' I know * (said Pym) how to add sovereign to the King's person, but... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Biography & Autobiography - 1833 - 574 pages
...and shall we now add it, we shall weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall Magna charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign*." On this momentous affair repeated conferences were held between the two houses ; and the peers, yielding... | |
| 1833 - 578 pages
...and shall we now add it, we shall weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall Magna charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."' Vol. I. pp. 208, 9. The Peers ultimately yielded, and passed the bill in its original In the mean time,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1833 - 690 pages
...and shall we now add it, we shall weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall Magna charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." ' Vol. I. pp. 208, 9. The Peers ultimately yielded, and passed the bill in its original form. It was... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...the law, but 'sovereign power' is not parliamentary. It weakens Magna Charta and all the statutes. Let us take heed what we yield unto; Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."* Wentworth, Noy, * Selden, opposing the " saving'clause," stated the following curious and important... | |
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