Petition of Right (1628)
quoted 3 times by 2 works · not held
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 2 citations · 3 passages
The Ship-Money Act cites the Petition of Right by name and date as the constitutional authority against which ship-money is judged and which is to be observed henceforth.
be it therefore declared and enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said charge imposed upon the subject for the providing and furnishing of ships commonly called Ship-money, and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Justices and Barons and the said writs, and every of them, an …
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 1 refuted 1 citation
The Petition of Right's language is explicitly quoted and its legal argument from Magna Carta explicitly judged unsound.
They embodied it, on the contrary, in the Petition of Right, which condemned the Crown’s practice of imprisoning political offenders “without any cause showed” (other than per speciale mandatum regis), as contrary to the tenor of Magna Carta—an effective contention as a political expedient, but unsound in law.
ch. 165 ¶
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