 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Law - 2001 - 474 pages
...have been increased if the following provision of the Act of Settlement had come into effect: "That no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a ra."r-i1?er of the House of... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Great Britain - 2003 - 824 pages
...of the question' (Cobbctt, xi. 143; also pp. pg, 370). " 1 170 1 1 I2&I $ Wil. Ill, c. 2, s. y 'That no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.')... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - England - 2004 - 682 pages
...tenements, or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him. That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.... | |
 | Robert Stevens - Law - 2005 - 233 pages
...growth of parties, the Act of Settlement once more addressed the issue of placemen, declaring that 'no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.... | |
 | Adam Tomkins - History - 2005 - 168 pages
...appointed, from interference by the Crown.160 With regard to the House of Commons the Act provided that 'no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons'.... | |
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That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons. 
