Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law: And Various Points of English Jurisprudence, Collected and Digested from Official Documents and Other Sources; with Notes |
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... rule of the English common law , that rent due is a debt which ranks in the administration of assets as a specialty debt , does not apply to Jamaica , nor to any lands out of the jurisdiction of the English courts : Vincent v . Godson ...
... rule of the English common law , that rent due is a debt which ranks in the administration of assets as a specialty debt , does not apply to Jamaica , nor to any lands out of the jurisdiction of the English courts : Vincent v . Godson ...
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... rule is that the legislative assembly has the sole right of imposing taxes on the colony , when the imperial legislature chooses to impose taxes , according to the rule of English law they have a right to do it . " And again , “ In the ...
... rule is that the legislative assembly has the sole right of imposing taxes on the colony , when the imperial legislature chooses to impose taxes , according to the rule of English law they have a right to do it . " And again , “ In the ...
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... rule of the one body furnish The lex et any legal analogy for the conduct of the other . " The correctness of Parliamenti this opinion has been abundantly established by decided cases . It was does not held , indeed , in Beaumont v ...
... rule of the one body furnish The lex et any legal analogy for the conduct of the other . " The correctness of Parliamenti this opinion has been abundantly established by decided cases . It was does not held , indeed , in Beaumont v ...
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... rule is otherwise . Each Governor receives special directions not to assent to Acts except under certain conditions , which are specified in his instructions . In an opinion given by the Attorney and Solicitor General , Sir Charles ...
... rule is otherwise . Each Governor receives special directions not to assent to Acts except under certain conditions , which are specified in his instructions . In an opinion given by the Attorney and Solicitor General , Sir Charles ...
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... rules and orders for the conduct of busi- ness in their Councils ; and by sect . 42 the Governor of each of those presidencies in Council has power , subject to the provisions of the Act , to make laws and regulations for the peace and ...
... rules and orders for the conduct of busi- ness in their Councils ; and by sect . 42 the Governor of each of those presidencies in Council has power , subject to the provisions of the Act , to make laws and regulations for the peace and ...
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Act of Parliament aliens allegiance appears appointed Assembly Attorney and Solicitor authority Bishop of Natal British subjects CAMPBELL Canada charter Chief Justice Church of England civil Colonial Act commission committed common law considered Constitution Court of Admiralty crime criminal Crown declared dominions Duke of York East India Company ecclesiastical enacted execution exercise foreign Governor grant habeas corpus honour to report inhabitants Ireland island JOINT OPINION Judge judicial jurisdiction jury King King's Advocate kingdom lands law of England legislative Legislature letters patent Lord Mansfield LORD,-We Lords Proprietors Lordship Lordship's commands lower counties Majesty Majesty's martial law ment military ministers Moore obedience offences Order in Council ordinance pardon passed Penn persons piracy possession prerogative proclamation province punishment Quære Queen Queen's Advocate question R. M. ROLFE reason respect Royal seal ship SIR JOHN statute territory thereof tion treaty trial United Vice-Admiralty Court Vict William Penn writ
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Page 133 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.
Page 513 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
Page 349 - ... end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if, on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive.
Page 288 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty, or property...
Page 493 - WAS shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other. I shall undertake, in the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.
Page 304 - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 495 - That said rebel States shall be divided into military districts, and made subject to the military authority of the United States, as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpose Virginia shall constitute the first district; North Carolina and South Carolina the second district; Georgia, Alabama, and Florida the third district; Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth district; and Louisiana and Texas the fifth district.
Page 526 - The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary to, constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other.
Page 493 - The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Page 493 - Committee, that a national Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.