| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...is poffefled of in a free .ftate, of being tried by their peers. The nobility for this reafon ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature, but before that part of the legiflature which is comppfed of their own body. It is poflible that the law, which is clear- fighted... | |
| Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...is poffefled of in a free ftate, of being tried by their peers. The nobility for this reafon ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature, but before that part of the legiflature which is compofed of their own body. It is poffible that the law, which is clear-fighted... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...pofTeiTed of, in a free ftate, of being tried by their peers. The nobility, for this reafon, ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature, but before that part of the legiflature which is eompofed of their own body. It is poffible that the law, which is clearfightcd... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1794 - 390 pages
...one fenfe, and blind in another, might in fome cafes be too levere. But, as we have already obferved, the national judges are no more than the mouth that pronounces the vords of the law, mere paffive beings, incapable of moderating either its force or rigour. That part... | |
| English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...poffeile .1 of, in a free itate, of being tried by their peers. The nobility, for this rcalon, ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature, but before that part ot the h-giilature which is comj-olcd ot their own body. It is poluhK- that the la\\ , which is clearfightcd... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...ona fenfe, and blind in another, might in fome cafes be too fevere. But, as we have already obferved, the national judges are no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere paflive beings, incapable of moderating either its torce or rigor. That part therefore of the legiflative... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...is possessed of in a free state, of being tried by his peers. The nobility, for this reason, ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature,...But as we have already observed, the national judges arc no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere passive beings, incapable of... | |
| 1828 - 844 pages
...impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 1 ' Montesquieu justly observes, that "the national judges are no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere passive beiigs, incapable of moderating either its force or rigour." Though this certainly more directly applies... | |
| English government - Constitutional law - 1870 - 114 pages
...equals, which is secured to all the realm by Magna Charta." " The nobility," writes Montesquieu, " ought not to be cited before the ordinary Courts of Judicature,...Legislature which is composed of their own body." Q. Do these privileges extend to foreign, peers ? A. No, foreign peers are regarded as commoners in... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...is possessed of in a free state, of being tried by his peers. The nobility, for this reason, ought not to be cited before the ordinary courts of judicature,...their own body. It is possible that the law, which is clear-sighted in one sense, and blind in another, might, in some cases, be too severe. But as we have... | |
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