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in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The composite institution of King, Lords, and Commons, whose consent was constitutionally required for binding legislation and taxation.
1), proceeded to ask that the King should take the advice of counsellors in whom Parliament could confide.
Only an Act of Parliament could do that, and in those days an Act of Parliament was not to be had without the real assent of King, Lords, and Commons.
When Parliament met in 1610 his right to do so was contested by the Commons, and a compromise was agreed to, by which James was to strike off about a third of the new duties as specially burdensome to the merchants, whilst the remainder, as matters then stood, about £50,000, was to be secured to him by an Act of Parliament in which words were to be inserted precluding him and his successors from e …
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English legislative body, discussed both as an institution restrained by laissez-faire assumptions and as one influenced by precedent toward collectivist legislation.
It was further universally admitted that for the Government, or for Parliament, to fix the rate of wages was as futile a task as for the State to undertake to fix the price of bread or of clothes.
To any one further who had studied the weight given to precedent by English Parliaments, no less than by English Courts, it must have been, or perhaps rather ought to have been, certain in 1900 that legislation already tending towards collectivism would in the earlier years of the twentieth century produce laws Edition:
No such privileged body has ever before been deliberately created by an English Parliament.
The Law of Torts
The British legislature, whose statutory authorization of acts or works is treated as a defense against otherwise actionable wrongs.
The solution is least difficult for the lawyer when the question has been decided in principle by a sovereign legislature.
But in order to secure this immunity the powers conferred by the Legislature must be exercised without negligence, or, as it is perhaps better expressed, with judgment and caution.
An authority accompanied by compulsory powers, or to be exercised concurrently with authorities ejusdem generis which are so accompanied, will, it seems, be generally treated as absolute;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The English Parliament, referenced across several centuries as the institution invoking or developing Magna Carta's authority.
Parliament in subsequent reigns had frequently to petition against the sale of justice in alleged breach of Magna Carta.
” The parliamentary leaders, however, too grimly in earnest to be deterred by logic, were far from abandoning their error because Heath had exposed it.
but rather the method of using the counsellors of his own appointment to curb his own caprice, while making it progressively difficult for him to appoint any minister of whom the national council did not approve.
Law in a Free State
The legislative body of the State, cited repeatedly as the source of inconsistent statutory intervention in religion, partnership law, and commerce.
In religion, we have Parliament making laws for one Christian sect and leaving the others free to make their own laws.
A barrister who should accept a brief from a client without the intermediary expense of a solicitor would sink to swim no more:
these generalisations are themselves brought under higher generalisations by jurists and judges, and perhaps Parliament;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The medieval English council of bishops, barons, and great men, described as subordinate to the king.
Parliament, so far as there was a parliament, was a mere council of the king.
Even when laws were made at the time of a parliament, they were made in the name of the king alone.
, (1297,) makes no provision whatever for, or mention of, a parliament, unless the provision, (Ch.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The British legislature whose statutes concerning the slave trade are examined.
And the cautious and curious phraseology of their statutes on the subject, indicates plainly that they themselves either doubted their power to legalize it, or feared to exercise it.
31,) may have possibly authorized, by implication, (so far as Parliament could thus authorize,) the colonial governments, (if governments they could be called,) on the coast of Africa, to allow slavery under certain circumstances, and within the “settlements” on that coast.
The act is entitled, “An Act to settle the Trade to Africa.
The Genius of the Common Law
The English Parliament, named as the institution the Stuarts defied to their detriment.
The Tudors, by judicious use of methods which were on the whole formally correct (whatever historians or moralists may have to say to other aspects of them), gained far more real power than that which the Stuarts, often with quite a fair show of reasons on their side, lost by relying on the King’s extraordinary privileges against Parliament and the common law.
In 1897 our Parliament, inspired by Joseph Chamberlain, took the bold course of removing the whole matter out of the litigious region where the first necessary step is to find some person in default.
Hence the long and lamentable history of judicial and parliamentary warfare against the persistent efforts of workmen, from the time when the medieval structure of society broke up, to devise organized methods of self-defense.
The Law of Intellectual Property
The British legislative body whose statutes on copyright and patents are criticized as arbitrary.
The act of parliament required no such entry to be made in the books themselves.
And the true method of proceeding, at this day, in order to establish the rights of authors and inventors, is to re-establish the constitutional authority of the Common Law over acts of parliament.
and also the arbitrary limitations, imposed by acts of parliament, for the last two hundred and thirty years, upon the rights of inventors, and for the last one hundred and forty years, upon the rights of authors;