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... party which has the majority in the lower house of the national legislature . He is not chosen for a definite term but retains office so long as he can retain his majority in the house . The result is a very close union between the ...
... party which has the majority in the lower house of the national legislature . He is not chosen for a definite term but retains office so long as he can retain his majority in the house . The result is a very close union between the ...
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... parties , especially of the plaintiff , and the importance of the case . An insignificant action , or one concerning people of low rank , would not ordinarily be brought in the shire court . As between the two courts , the hundred court ...
... parties , especially of the plaintiff , and the importance of the case . An insignificant action , or one concerning people of low rank , would not ordinarily be brought in the shire court . As between the two courts , the hundred court ...
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... parties being before the court , the first step was a foreoath by the plaintiff in which he stated his case , some- times with others to support him , called his suit or secta , and then an oath in rebuttal by the defendant , if he ...
... parties being before the court , the first step was a foreoath by the plaintiff in which he stated his case , some- times with others to support him , called his suit or secta , and then an oath in rebuttal by the defendant , if he ...
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... party to whom the oath was awarded found the required number of helpers . With the increase of population and the growing complexity of business , the knowledge of the communal assembly be- came less and less able to furnish any real ...
... party to whom the oath was awarded found the required number of helpers . With the increase of population and the growing complexity of business , the knowledge of the communal assembly be- came less and less able to furnish any real ...
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... party if he was killed and also sometimes used to measure a fine for his own offences , that is , he was called on to redeem his life . Amounts to be paid were fixed also for other offences and varied according to the character of the ...
... party if he was killed and also sometimes used to measure a fine for his own offences , that is , he was called on to redeem his life . Amounts to be paid were fixed also for other offences and varied according to the character of the ...
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Page 321 - The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according to their humors, but according to the blessed will and law of God. " III. They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them.
Page 457 - She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.
Page 284 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 321 - Parliament assembled do declare, that the People are, under God, the original of all just power; and do also declare, that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the People, have the supreme power in this nation...
Page 294 - Majesty, that no Man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift, Loan, Benevolence, Tax or such like Charge, without Common Consent by Act of Parliament...
Page 323 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 457 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...
Page 408 - That it is now necessary to declare, that to report any opinion, or pretended opinion of his Majesty upon any bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanour, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 199 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Page 311 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...