George III
historical figure · 4 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
George the Third · George the third · the king of Great Britain · their king
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
King of England marking the start of the one-hundred-fifty-year period of political history surveyed.
This view is suggested by the superficial reading, or the still more superficial memory, of English political history from the accession of George III.
In 1804 George the Third was on the throne, and English opinion was then set dead against every legal or political change, yet there is now hardly a part of the English statute-book which between 1804 and the present day has not been changed in form or in substance;
had tenderer hearts than the subjects of Cromwell.
Institutes of Roman Law
English king in whose reign trial by wager of battle was finally abolished by statute.
So, in English law, trial by Wager of battle, introduced by William the Conqueror, was first partially superseded by the Grand assize, or trial by jury, an alternative substituted by Henry II, and was finally abolished in the reign of George III.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
King of Great Britain during the American Revolution, invoked as a historical analogy for aristocratical power bound by allegiance.
George the third was recognized as their king for life by all the colonies, and the recognition was rivetted by the word allegiance, the force of which these colonies admitted.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The British monarch accused in Revolutionary-era state constitutional preambles.
It recited that the king of Great Britain had employed against the inhabitants of that commonwealth, “foreign mercenaries, savages and slaves.
It charges George the Third, among other things, with “prompting our negroes to rise in arms among us, those very negroes, whom, by an inhuman use of his negative, he hath refused us permission to exclude by law.