Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books: V. 1-5, Volume 8J. Almon, 1771 |
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Page 194 - Parliamenti, that all weighty matters in any Parliament moved, concerning the peers of the realm, or Commons in Parliament assembled, ought to be determined, adjudged, and discussed, by the course of the Parliament, and not by the Civil Law, nor yet by the common laws of this realm used in more inferior courts.
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