James I
historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 15 anchored passages
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
King of England (r. 1603-1625), whose demands for aids in 1609 and 1613 are cited as the last instances of the practice.
, who, in 1609, demanded one for the knighting of the ill–fated Prince Henry, and in 1613 another for the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth.
An attempt, made by the House of Commons to induce James I.
, shortly after his accession, transgressed this provision of Magna Carta by requisitioning timber for repairing the fortifications of Calais.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
King of England from 1603 to 1625, whose financial demands and religious and foreign policies produced escalating conflict with the House of Commons.
Under these circumstances James died in 1625.
After the abortive Hampton Court Conference in 1604 James resolved to enforce conformity, and a considerable number of the clergy were deprived of their benefices for refusing to conform.
The claim of James to levy Impositions naturally raised opposition in the House of Commons, as it effected not merely the pockets of the members and their constituents, but the constitutional position of Parliament.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
King whose 1616 speech to the judges is quoted as proof the coronation oath still bound him to the law of the land.
The following extract from Lord Somers’ tract on Grand Juries shows that the coronation oath continued the same as late as 1616, (four hundred years after Magna Carta.
I will now give some authorities to show that the foregoing oath has, in substance, been the coronation oath from the times of William the Conqueror, (1066,) down to the time of James the First, and probably until 1688.
“King James, in his speech to the judges, in the Star Chamber, Anno 1616, told them, ‘That he had, after many years, resolved to renew his oath, made at his coronation, concerning justice, and the promise therein contained for maintaining the law of the land.
The Genius of the Common Law
Early seventeenth-century king in whose reign the equity/common-law jurisdictional conflict continued.
We may doubt whether the conflict that took place in the days of Elizabeth and James I was at all reasonably necessary;
The Law of Torts
English king in whose reign the Statute of Limitation (21 Jac. 1, c. 16) fixing the times for bringing actions of tort was enacted.
The times in which actions of tort must be brought are fixed by the Statute of Limitation of James I.
Law in a Free State
King in whose reign (referred to as 'James's seventh Tippling Act') an early temperance statute discussed by the author was passed.
When he reads the preamble (or pre - ramble, as it is aptly styled in working-men's clubs) to James's seventh Tippling Act, he will be less sanguine in embarking on modern temperance legislation.