Henry VIII
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Henry VIII. · Henry the 8th · King Henry the Eighth · 23 Henry VIII · 4 Henry VIII · King Henry VIII
spoken of as
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
afforested the districts surrounding Hampton Court in 1540, he did so by consent of Parliament, and on condition of compensating all who suffered damage.
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Tudor king credited with removing the English Church from papal jurisdiction.
The Church of England during the Middle Ages had been to a great extent national, and when Henry VIII threw off the Papal jurisdiction she became entirely national.
and that in the succeeding times of King Richard the Third, King Henry the Seventh, King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage was not only enjoyed by every of those Kings and Queens, from the death of each of them deceasing, until it was granted by Parliament unto the successor;
and by the statute made in the one-and-twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth, the President of the Council is associated to join with the Lord Chancellor and other Judges in the said statute of the third of Henry the Seventh mentioned:
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The English king under whom the religious revolution occurred, invoked as an analogy for a feared incomplete American constitutional revolution.
Our civil revolution will then have eventuated, precisely like the religious revolution in England under Henry the 8th.
Henry the 8th exercised a supremacy over the two other spheres (at length by rebellions and civil wars rendered co-ordinate,) strongly resembling that now claimed over the state spheres;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
English king under whom acts giving justices discretionary control over jury panels were made permanent.
This act was continued in force by 1 Henry VIII.
It was reënacted, and made perpetual, by 3 Henry VIII.
”—23 Henry VIII.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English king whose statute regulated the Star Chamber.
There is no doubt that the Court of Star Chamber was of higher antiquity than the statutes regulating it, 3 Henry VII.
The Rights of War and Peace
King of England whose handwriting is analyzed as an example of character revealed in autographs.
[iii] in the characters traced by Henry VIII the hardened, sensual and selfish character of that autocrat and polygamist;
The Genius of the Common Law
King invoked to illustrate how unforeseeable the later transformation of royal power would have seemed.
Henry VIII, not to say Edward I, would never have believed a man who prophesied that his successors, after losing most of their direct power and sinking for a short time into political insignificance, would regain a high degree of consideration and no contemptible measure of influence as confidential but impartial advisers of their own Ministers.
The Law of Torts
English king under whose statutes archery practice was a legal duty, referenced regarding the shooting cases.
and the practice of archery was, when Bacon wrote, a positive legal duty under statutes as recent as Henry VIII.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
King of England 1509-1547, who afforested land around Hampton Court in 1540 with parliamentary consent and compensation to sufferers.
afforested the districts surrounding Hampton Court in 1540, he did so by consent of Parliament, and on condition of compensating all who suffered damage.