The constitution of England; or, An account of the English government |
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Seite 22 - freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny
Seite 117 - 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 intrusted by " the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, " operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of
Seite 80 - I will." Archbishop or bishop.—" Will you, to the utmost of your " power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, " and the protestant reformed religion established by the law ? " And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this " realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all " such rights and privileges as bv law do or shall appertain
Seite 269 - expressly recognized by the law itself. The lords and commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " king James the Second, " having endeavoured to subvert the constitution " of the kingdom, by breaking the original con" tract between king and people, and
Seite 47 - assent, became an act of parliament, under the title of An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.—A. 1 William and Mary, sess. 2. cap. 2.
Seite 77 - parliament, that neither his majesty, nor his privy-council, " have, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, or authority, to " examine or draw into question, determine, or dispose of, the " lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, of any of the subjects of this " kingdom. ' ' Stat. 16, Ch. I. cap. 10. § 10.
Seite 342 - it is enacted, that no person, who shall have in his own name, or in the name of any person or persons in trust for him, or for his benefit, any new office or place of profit whatsoever under the crown, which at any time, since the 25th October 1705,
Seite 117 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says " Sir Edward Coke, (4 Inst. 36,) is so transcendent and absolute, " that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within
Seite 80 - mise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, " and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes " of parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the " same ?"—The king or queen shall
Seite 468 - An act to repeal so much of an act, made in the parliament of Ireland in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of king George the Third, for preventing frauds committed by bankrupts, as inflicts capital punishment on certain offences therein specified ; and to provide more suitable and effectual punishment for such offences.