Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the Work, Volum 1S. Sweet, 1836 |
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Pàgina xix
... bill to settle that controverted point , to publish it in March , 1758 , under the title of Considerations on Copyholders . The bill soon after passed into a law . Mr. Viner having by his will left the copyright of his Abridg- ment ...
... bill to settle that controverted point , to publish it in March , 1758 , under the title of Considerations on Copyholders . The bill soon after passed into a law . Mr. Viner having by his will left the copyright of his Abridg- ment ...
Pàgina xlii
... Bills are usually twice read in each house , committed , en- grossed , and then read a third time ; and when they have obtain- ed the concurrence of both houses , and received the royal assent , they become acts of Parliament . 182-185 ...
... Bills are usually twice read in each house , committed , en- grossed , and then read a third time ; and when they have obtain- ed the concurrence of both houses , and received the royal assent , they become acts of Parliament . 182-185 ...
Pàgina lvi
... bill has been brought into the House of Commons by the Attorney - General , the object of which is to allow counsel to be heard in de- fence of prisoners indicted of any felony . The preponderance of votes , as well as of argument , was ...
... bill has been brought into the House of Commons by the Attorney - General , the object of which is to allow counsel to be heard in de- fence of prisoners indicted of any felony . The preponderance of votes , as well as of argument , was ...
Pàgina 46
... bills of attainder , and bills of pains and penalties , which , though in their nature they are ex post facto laws , yet are seldom called so.- CH . the nature of society and civil government ; and the 46 OF THE NATURE OF.
... bills of attainder , and bills of pains and penalties , which , though in their nature they are ex post facto laws , yet are seldom called so.- CH . the nature of society and civil government ; and the 46 OF THE NATURE OF.
Pàgina 73
... bills of exchange , insurance , and all mercantile contracts , are as much the general law of the land , as the laws relating to marriage or murder . But the expression has very unfortunately led merchants to suppose , that all their ...
... bills of exchange , insurance , and all mercantile contracts , are as much the general law of the land , as the laws relating to marriage or murder . But the expression has very unfortunately led merchants to suppose , that all their ...
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Pàgina 210 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Pàgina 439 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Pàgina 412 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Pàgina 157 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Pàgina 234 - And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the kings and queens who shall ascend the throne of this realm ought to administer the government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...
Pàgina 41 - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Pàgina 235 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Pàgina 60 - that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity,' did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street in a fit.
Pàgina 67 - This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction.
Pàgina 58 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.