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... unless we can also prefer the despotic monarchy of Rome and Byzantium , for whose meridians the former were calculated , to the free constitution of Britain , which the latter are adapted to perpetuate . Without detracting therefore ...
... unless we can also prefer the despotic monarchy of Rome and Byzantium , for whose meridians the former were calculated , to the free constitution of Britain , which the latter are adapted to perpetuate . Without detracting therefore ...
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... unless it should be found , that the penners of our modern sta- tutes have proportionably better informed themselves in the knowledge of the common law . What is said of our gentlemen in general , and the pro- cable to the priety of ...
... unless it should be found , that the penners of our modern sta- tutes have proportionably better informed themselves in the knowledge of the common law . What is said of our gentlemen in general , and the pro- cable to the priety of ...
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... unless in common with other gentlemen , and to complete the character of general and extensive knowledge ; a character which their profession , beyond others , has remarkably deserved . They will give me leave however to suggest , and ...
... unless in common with other gentlemen , and to complete the character of general and extensive knowledge ; a character which their profession , beyond others , has remarkably deserved . They will give me leave however to suggest , and ...
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... unless that these courts were all under the immediate direction of the popish ecclesiastics , among whom it was a point of religion to exclude the muni- cipal law ; pope Innocent the fourth having forbidden1 the very reading of it by ...
... unless that these courts were all under the immediate direction of the popish ecclesiastics , among whom it was a point of religion to exclude the muni- cipal law ; pope Innocent the fourth having forbidden1 the very reading of it by ...
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... unless it can be afforded them in the The inns of universities . The inns of court are the Inner Temple , and few will such as are intended for sion . court and chancery . likely to ac- attention to Middle Temple , Lincoln's Inn , and ...
... unless it can be afforded them in the The inns of universities . The inns of court are the Inner Temple , and few will such as are intended for sion . court and chancery . likely to ac- attention to Middle Temple , Lincoln's Inn , and ...
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Page 217 - 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.
Page 100 - But this must be understood with very many and very great restrictions. Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law, as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance, and of protection from personal injuries.
Page 153 - 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 entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 219 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess ; and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 127 - Personal liberty," it has been well said, "consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.
Page 31 - 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...
Page 118 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase; and, in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Page 243 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same ? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 48 - THE fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator, is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable. And these signs are either the words, the context, the subjectmatter, the effects and consequence, or the spirit and reason of the law.
Page 131 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.