The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 6 |
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... court of the people ; nor , the lawyers of Rome that made the imperial law in Justinian's time , but Justinian himself . P. We agree then in this , that in England it is the King that makes the laws , whosoever pens them ; and in this ...
... court of the people ; nor , the lawyers of Rome that made the imperial law in Justinian's time , but Justinian himself . P. We agree then in this , that in England it is the King that makes the laws , whosoever pens them ; and in this ...
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... courts of judicature ? P. Why not ? For they were all constituted by the Kings of England ; and though the civil law used in the Admiralty were at first the statutes of the Roman empire , yet because they are in force by no other ...
... courts of judicature ? P. Why not ? For they were all constituted by the Kings of England ; and though the civil law used in the Admiralty were at first the statutes of the Roman empire , yet because they are in force by no other ...
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... court of justice , and a court of equity ? L. A court of justice is that which hath cogni- zance of such causes as are to be ended by the positive laws of the land ; and a court of equity is that , to which belong such causes as are to ...
... court of justice , and a court of equity ? L. A court of justice is that which hath cogni- zance of such causes as are to be ended by the positive laws of the land ; and a court of equity is that , to which belong such causes as are to ...
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... courts ought to judge according to equity , which is the law of reason , a distinct court of equity seemeth to me to be unne- cessary , and but a burthen to the people , since common - law and equity are the same law . P. It were so ...
... courts ought to judge according to equity , which is the law of reason , a distinct court of equity seemeth to me to be unne- cessary , and but a burthen to the people , since common - law and equity are the same law . P. It were so ...
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... upon the death of Julius Cæsar , in the senate of Rome . By such an act you may easily conceive that all accusations for offences past were Of Courts . absolutely dead and buried ; and yet D 2 OF THE COMMON LAWS . 35.
... upon the death of Julius Cæsar , in the senate of Rome . By such an act you may easily conceive that all accusations for offences past were Of Courts . absolutely dead and buried ; and yet D 2 OF THE COMMON LAWS . 35.
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Page 69 - Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be provably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition.
Page 367 - I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Page 75 - When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest Son and Heir...
Page 175 - Act, shall not in any wise have authority or power to order, determine, or adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered, or adjudged to be heresy, by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four general Councils, or any of them, or by any other general Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 4 - ... reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not of every man's natural reason ; for, Nemo nascitur artifex.
Page 29 - Schools: for they say, that justice is the constant will of giving to every man his own. And therefore where there is no own...
Page 13 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the king or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm ; and by authority of parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of king Edward III.
Page 295 - That your Majesty will be pleased, by Act of Parliament, to clear the Lord Kimbolton and the five members of the House of Commons, in such manner that future Parliaments may be secured from the consequence of that evil precedent. 19. That your Majesty will be graciously pleased to pass a Bill for restraining peers made hereafter, from sitting or voting in Parliament, unless they be admitted thereunto with the consent of both Houses of Parliament.
Page 84 - ... it is accorded, that if any other case, supposed treason, which is not above specified, doth happen before any justices, the justices shall tarry without any going to judgment of the treason, till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his Parliament, whether it ought to be judged treason or other felony.
Page 12 - Moreover, we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth will we take such manner of aids, tasks, nor prises, but by the common assent of the realm, and for the common profit thereof, saving the ancient aids and prises due and accustomed.