 | Henry Hallam - 1872 - 708 pages
...present occasion, it was finally decided by the legislature in the act of settlement, which provides that no pardon under the great seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment of the commons in parliament. These expressions seem tacitly to concede the crown's right of granting... | |
 | English periodicals - 1873 - 756 pages
...limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made quam din se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established, but...Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them." Is Parliament competent to repeal this clause, which is the guarantee of the independence of the judges... | |
 | David Nasmith - Constitutional history - 1873 - 552 pages
...said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, Judges' Commissions be made quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established; but...both Houses of Parliament, it may be lawful to remove them.s 1 Intended to correct the evil of the Cabinet system already explained . This clause was however... | |
 | William Stubbs - Constitutional history - 1874 - 604 pages
...limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, Judges' Commissions be made Quamdiu, ee bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but...pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament. IV. And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...of Hanover) " shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made qnamdiu se bene gtssennt, and their salaries ascertained and established, but...Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them." And by Geo. Ill, c. 23, the judges were continued in office during good behavior, notwithstanding the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...192, 193, 277. And in 1700 .»he act of settlement of 12 & 13 W. Ill, chap. 2, section 3, declared " that no pardon under the great seal of England be...pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament." " But," Blackatone says, "after Coin n 11 in weal th v. Lock wood. the impeachment has been solemnly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 778 pages
...Hatsell's Free. 192, 193, 277. And in 1700 the act of settlement of 12 & 13 W. III. c. 2, § 3, declared " that no pardon under the great seal of England be...pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament." " But," Blackstone says, " after the impeachment has been solemnly heard and determined, it is not... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1874 - 636 pages
...bar of the prosecution of the case. (1679.) It was decided in the act of settlement of 13 Wm. III. that "no pardon under the great seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment of the commons in parliament." The question whether an impeachment could survive a dissolution was... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...limitations shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made quanidiu se bcne gcsscrint and their salaries ascertained and established ; but...both Houses of Parliament, it may be lawful to remove them.2 8. That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...of an impeachment." And at length, it was enacted by the act of settlement, 12 & 13 Will. 3, c. 2, " y wrongful act, neglect, or default, and But, when the impeachment has been solemnly heard and determined, it is not understood that the г... | |
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Judges' Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them. 
