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... action - a part , consequently , of the " Common Law ; " the charters and statutes being but the confirmation of certain fundamental principles thereof * —an assurance that it will be effectually carried out ; nay , occa- sionally ...
... action - a part , consequently , of the " Common Law ; " the charters and statutes being but the confirmation of certain fundamental principles thereof * —an assurance that it will be effectually carried out ; nay , occa- sionally ...
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... action during the last two hundred years ? " " The present constitution of our country is to the constitution under which she flourished five hundred years ago , what the tree is to the sapling - what the man is to the boy . The ...
... action during the last two hundred years ? " " The present constitution of our country is to the constitution under which she flourished five hundred years ago , what the tree is to the sapling - what the man is to the boy . The ...
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... action in the commonalty , so far as needful for the maintenance of peace ; the prevention of private warfare , and of a domination of robber - knights like that which prevailed in Germany . Such kingly despotism , weighing with equal ...
... action in the commonalty , so far as needful for the maintenance of peace ; the prevention of private warfare , and of a domination of robber - knights like that which prevailed in Germany . Such kingly despotism , weighing with equal ...
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... action could secure it . The omnipotence of parliament was the forced consequence of a rule like that of the Stuarts ; any compromise whatever with it was impossible ; it could only annihilate parliament , or must itself be trampled ...
... action could secure it . The omnipotence of parliament was the forced consequence of a rule like that of the Stuarts ; any compromise whatever with it was impossible ; it could only annihilate parliament , or must itself be trampled ...
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... action , even a legal decision based on the most elaborately - contrived code , may not be readily appreciable ; hence sect . 49-50 of the introduction to the old Prussian code directed- " If the judge find no enactment which may serve ...
... action , even a legal decision based on the most elaborately - contrived code , may not be readily appreciable ; hence sect . 49-50 of the introduction to the old Prussian code directed- " If the judge find no enactment which may serve ...
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Popular passages
Page 519 - Secondly, 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 that Minister.
Page 459 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 406 - That all writs, processes, commissions, patents, grants, and other things, which now run in the name and style of the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of Parliament...
Page 44 - It is to your ancestors, my lords, it is to the English barons, that we are indebted for the laws and Constitution we possess. Their virtues were rude and uncultivated, but they were great and sincere. Their understandings were as little polished as their manners, but they had hearts to distinguish right from wrong; they had heads to distinguish truth from falsehood; they understood the rights of humanity, and they had the spirit to maintain them.
Page 60 - For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth liberal sciences, and to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen, and shall be taken for a gentleman...
Page 265 - Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.
Page 122 - A king of England cannot at his pleasure make any alterations in the laws of the land, for the nature of his government is not only regal, hut political.
Page 124 - Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head...
Page 124 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Page 74 - IT shall be lawful for any constable or peace officer in any county, borough, or place in Great Britain and Ireland, in any highway, street, or public place, to search any person whom he may have good cause to suspect of coming from any land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game...