The Institutes of English Public Law: Embracing an Outline of General Jurisprudence: the Development of the British Constitution; Public International Law; and the Public Municipal Law of England |
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... enemies to the kingdom and common- wealth . This was on the 2nd of March , 1629. The King immediately adjourned the House till the 10th , and on that day he dissolved Parliament with the threat 164 THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION .
... enemies to the kingdom and common- wealth . This was on the 2nd of March , 1629. The King immediately adjourned the House till the 10th , and on that day he dissolved Parliament with the threat 164 THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION .
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... enemies . First , there were the military tenures , which bound great part of the kingdom to a stipulated service at the charge of the possessors . The Cinque Ports also , and several other towns , some of them not maritime , held by a ...
... enemies . First , there were the military tenures , which bound great part of the kingdom to a stipulated service at the charge of the possessors . The Cinque Ports also , and several other towns , some of them not maritime , held by a ...
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... enemies into the kingdom , or except they be otherwise bound by the tenure of their lands or possessions . Upon these several Acts of the Long Parliament Hallam1 makes two comments : 1st . They made scarce any material change in our ...
... enemies into the kingdom , or except they be otherwise bound by the tenure of their lands or possessions . Upon these several Acts of the Long Parliament Hallam1 makes two comments : 1st . They made scarce any material change in our ...
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... enemies the weapon they had invented under the Stuarts . To suppress tumults of the rabble , instigated by the vehicles of Tory senti- ment , annually exported from Oxford , and dispersed 1 By Plunkett's Catholic Relief Bill , 1821 ...
... enemies the weapon they had invented under the Stuarts . To suppress tumults of the rabble , instigated by the vehicles of Tory senti- ment , annually exported from Oxford , and dispersed 1 By Plunkett's Catholic Relief Bill , 1821 ...
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... enemy's merchandise , with the exception of contraband of war , ' the declaration of the 16th of April to that effect became the positive law , binding upon all the subjects of the several powers , the parties to that undertaking ...
... enemy's merchandise , with the exception of contraband of war , ' the declaration of the 16th of April to that effect became the positive law , binding upon all the subjects of the several powers , the parties to that undertaking ...
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Page 357 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 2 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 183 - That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 369 - ... to or for any voter, 1 See Appendix. 2 See Steph. Com., vol. iyt p. 271. • or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 182 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 432 - England by any other than a subject of his majesty, or to any person marrying a second time, whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time, or shall extend to any person who at the mate children.
Page 361 - ... such person shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return as their verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanor charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same...
Page 117 - NO FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 398 - A monopoly is an institution, or allowance by the king by his grant, commission, or otherwise to any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, of or for the sole buying, selling, making, working, or using of anything, whereby any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, are sought to be restrained of any freedom or liberty that they had before, or hindered in their lawful trade.
Page 399 - ... contrary to the law, nor mischievous to the State, by raising prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient...