Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1A Strahan, 1825 |
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... determine questions of right , and distribute justice to his fellow - subjects : it is principally with this order of men that the commission of the peace is filled . And here a very ample field is open for a gentleman to exert his ...
... determine questions of right , and distribute justice to his fellow - subjects : it is principally with this order of men that the commission of the peace is filled . And here a very ample field is open for a gentleman to exert his ...
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... determine according to the law and custom of this realm ; though they still kept possession of the high office of chancellor ; an office then of little juridical power ; and afterwards , as it's business increased by degrees , they ...
... determine according to the law and custom of this realm ; though they still kept possession of the high office of chancellor ; an office then of little juridical power ; and afterwards , as it's business increased by degrees , they ...
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... determine and promise what shall be done , before we are obliged to do it ; in laws , we are obliged to act without ourselves determining or promising any thing at all . Upon these accounts law is defined to be " a rule . " MUNICIPAL ...
... determine and promise what shall be done , before we are obliged to do it ; in laws , we are obliged to act without ourselves determining or promising any thing at all . Upon these accounts law is defined to be " a rule . " MUNICIPAL ...
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... determine . And so , as to injuries or crimes , it must be left to our own legislature to decide , in what cases the seizing another's cattle shall amount to a trespass or a theft ; and where it shall be a justifiable action , as when a ...
... determine . And so , as to injuries or crimes , it must be left to our own legislature to decide , in what cases the seizing another's cattle shall amount to a trespass or a theft ; and where it shall be a justifiable action , as when a ...
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... determined the field to belong to Titius , it is matter of conscience no longer to withhold or to invade it . So also in regard to natural duties , and such offences as are mala in se : here we are bound in conscience , because we are ...
... determined the field to belong to Titius , it is matter of conscience no longer to withhold or to invade it . So also in regard to natural duties , and such offences as are mala in se : here we are bound in conscience , because we are ...
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Page 211 - It was moved 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, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Page 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.
Page 8 - ... freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it, a liberty to follow my own will in all things where the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man; as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature.
Page 361 - ... the division where any person or persons that are likely to be chargeable to the parish shall come to inhabit, by their warrant to remove and convey such person or persons to such parish where he or they were last legally settled, either as a native, householder, sojourner, apprentice or servant, for the space of forty days at the least...
Page 135 - J expressly direct, that no man shall be taken or imprisoned by suggestion or petition to the king or his council, unless it be by legal indictment, or the process of the common law. By the petition of right, 3 Car.
Page 441 - For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself...
Page 156 - Thus, every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by the rest ; for the two houses, naturally drawing in two directions of opposite interest, and the prerogative in another still different from them both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits ; while the whole is prevented from separation, and artificially connected together, by the mixed nature of the crown, which is a part of the legislative, and the sole executive magistrate.
Page 112 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 111 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 127 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature;' being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.