 | Alexander James Dallas - 1906
...any other potentate upon earth. Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the King, even in civil matters ; because no court can have jurisdiction over him : for all jurisdiction implies superiority of power." This last position is only a branch of a much... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1922 - 852 Seiten
...to any other potentate on earth. Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no Court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power; authority to try would be vain and idle without... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1924 - 499 Seiten
...any other potentate upon earth. Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the King, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power: authority to try would be vain and idle, without... | |
 | New Brunswick. Supreme Court - 1877
...cannot sit in judgment in any Court. It is laid down in Bac. Abr. "Courts" (BJ that " the King himself, though he be entrusted with the whole executive power of the law, cannot sit in judgment in any Court, but his justice, and the laws, must be administered according... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1883
...potentate on earth. VOL. IV., NS Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against tbe King even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him ; for all jurisdiction implies superiority of power. Authority to try would be vain and idle without... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1955 - 108 Seiten
...stems from the ancient proposition that: "* * * [N]o suit or action can be brought against the king even in civil matters, because no court- can have jurisdiction over him * * *" (1 Cooley's Blackstone 212). Cooley cites American precedents including Gibbons v. US ((1868)... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry, James C. Brandow - 1985 - 728 Seiten
...any other Potentate upon Earth. Hence it is, that no Suit or Action can be brought against the King, even in civil Matters because no Court can have Jurisdiction over him. For all Jurisdiction implies Superiority of Power. This last Position is only a Branch of a much more... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003
...that subject, Blackstone's Commentaries says that "no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him." Then it goes on, "For the same reason, no action lies under a Republican form of Government against... | |
 | United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 152 Seiten
...sovereignty, or pre-eminence. ... Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him.") (Emphasis in original). It is this immunity from law suits that protects the tax dollars paid into... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 1095 Seiten
...sovereignty, or pre-eminence. . . . Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power. ..." With this precept fully accepted, and with... | |
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Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. 
