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Page 11
... privileges of the order - principally then the monopoly of the practice at the bar of the Common Pleas - were not sufficient to counterbalance its ex- pense and inconvenience . In the same year ( 1759 ) he published two small pieces ...
... privileges of the order - principally then the monopoly of the practice at the bar of the Common Pleas - were not sufficient to counterbalance its ex- pense and inconvenience . In the same year ( 1759 ) he published two small pieces ...
Page 11
... privileges : and all the members of either house are entitled to the privilege of speech , of person , of their domestics , and of their lands and goods ....... 160-167 6. The peculiar privileges of the lords ( be- sides their judicial ...
... privileges : and all the members of either house are entitled to the privilege of speech , of person , of their domestics , and of their lands and goods ....... 160-167 6. The peculiar privileges of the lords ( be- sides their judicial ...
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... privileges . VI . Their dis- solution ..230-232 CHAPTER VI . OF THE KING'S DUTIES .... .233 to 235 1. The king's ... privilege ........ 11. He is also the arbiter of domestic com- merce , ( not of foreign , which is regulated by the ...
... privileges . VI . Their dis- solution ..230-232 CHAPTER VI . OF THE KING'S DUTIES .... .233 to 235 1. The king's ... privilege ........ 11. He is also the arbiter of domestic com- merce , ( not of foreign , which is regulated by the ...
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... privilege , or branch of the king's prerogative , subsist- ing in the hands of a subject . 10. Corodies are allotments for one's suste- nance ; which may be converted into pen- sions . ( See Book I. Ch . VIII . ) 11. An annuity is a ...
... privilege , or branch of the king's prerogative , subsist- ing in the hands of a subject . 10. Corodies are allotments for one's suste- nance ; which may be converted into pen- sions . ( See Book I. Ch . VIII . ) 11. An annuity is a ...
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... Privileged villenage , or villein socage ; where the service was base , but certain 61-78 2. The most universal ancient tenure was that in chivalry , or by knight - service ; in which the tenant of every knight's fee was bound , if ...
... Privileged villenage , or villein socage ; where the service was base , but certain 61-78 2. The most universal ancient tenure was that in chivalry , or by knight - service ; in which the tenant of every knight's fee was bound , if ...
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Page 16 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page x - a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws"; but freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it, a liberty to follow my own will in all things where the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man; as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature.
Page 348 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 288 - The children of persons who have been duly naturalized under any law of the United States, or who, previous to the passing of any law on that subject, by the Government of the United States...
Page 183 - 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 by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 319 - 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.
Page 288 - States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 109 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions, is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 395 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 397 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.