A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... Lords Spiritual , the Lords Temporal , and the Commons . * The King is supreme ; his office is hereditary ; and all new laws purport to be enacted by him , with the consent of the two Houses . The Lords Spiritual and Temporal consist of ...
... Lords Spiritual , the Lords Temporal , and the Commons . * The King is supreme ; his office is hereditary ; and all new laws purport to be enacted by him , with the consent of the two Houses . The Lords Spiritual and Temporal consist of ...
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... lord and vassal were mutual ; it being as much the duty of the lord to protect his vassal , as of the vassal to do fealty and service to his lord . The services to be performed by the military tenant were not left to the lord's caprice ...
... lord and vassal were mutual ; it being as much the duty of the lord to protect his vassal , as of the vassal to do fealty and service to his lord . The services to be performed by the military tenant were not left to the lord's caprice ...
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... lord , who was authorized , by law , to make his tenants contribute to the aid he had himself agreed to give . It is ... lords . After the parliament of De Mont- fort , no mention is made of the Commons until the subsequent reign of ...
... lord , who was authorized , by law , to make his tenants contribute to the aid he had himself agreed to give . It is ... lords . After the parliament of De Mont- fort , no mention is made of the Commons until the subsequent reign of ...
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... lord and upon the same terms as the grantor himself had held . The professed , and perhaps the real , intention of the statute was , to save the rights of the lords . In its in- evitable tendency and result , it destroyed subordinate ...
... lord and upon the same terms as the grantor himself had held . The professed , and perhaps the real , intention of the statute was , to save the rights of the lords . In its in- evitable tendency and result , it destroyed subordinate ...
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... Lord Chancellor . A previous impeachment had taken place in the 50th year of Edward III .; but the latter was the ... Lords ; and as these subsidies most commonly bore a greater rateable proportion to their means , and affected an ...
... Lord Chancellor . A previous impeachment had taken place in the 50th year of Edward III .; but the latter was the ... Lords ; and as these subsidies most commonly bore a greater rateable proportion to their means , and affected an ...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2 John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
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Página 481 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Página 729 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 93 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 3 - ... be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 143 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Página 93 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Página 443 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 213 - That James VII, being a professed papist , did assume the royal power, and acted as king , without ever taking the oath required by law, and had by the advice of evil and wicked counsellors , . invaded the fundamental constitution of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power...
Página 261 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Página 643 - ... by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers...