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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English) · The Law of Intellectual Property (English)

Large sums of money were raised by the fines of the star-chamber and high commission court, and the extraordinary projects of loans, benevolences and free gifts.

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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

A prerogative court composed of Privy Councillors and judges, able to punish without a jury, later abolished by the Long Parliament.

Not only were the judges removable by the Crown, but the Court of Star Chamber, which could fine, imprison, and in certain cases sentence to the pillory, without the intervention of a jury, Edition:

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

[xi] facts are to be traced in the legislation of the first months of the Long Parliament, especially in the Triennial Act, the Tonnage and Poundage Act, and the Acts for the abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commission.

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

And whereas suits were commenced in our Court of Star Chamber, against Richard Chambers, John Fowkes, Bartholomew Gilman, and Richard Phillips, by our Attorney-General, for great misdemeanours;

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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

The English Court of Star Chamber, cited as an instrument by which Charles I extracted fines from his subjects.

Large sums of money were raised by the fines of the star-chamber and high commission court, and the extraordinary projects of loans, benevolences and free gifts.

chapter 14 ¶

Much larger sums of money are annually taken from free citizens by charter-bounties and monopolies, than were taken from Charles’s subjects by the star-chamber and high commission courts.

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The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

An arbitrary royal court active until 1640, used to punish infringements of royal authority and monopoly grants.

And these monopolies were maintained through the instrumentality of the Star-chamber court, which summarily punished infringers.

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And from this time the government assumed unlimited authority over the press, prohibiting the publication of every thing heretical in politics or religion, and enforcing its restrictions by means of the Star-chamber court and otherwise, in the most summary and tyrannical manner.

chapter 29 ¶

In addition to all these usurpations, for the overthrow of the Common Law, the king, for the two or three hundred years ending in 1640, maintained an extraordinary and unconstitutional court, of the most arbitrary character, called the Star-chamber court, composed wholly of his ministers and instruments, who exercised the power of summoning before them, and punishing at discretion, any one who had …

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