The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, Or Parliament: Considered According to Ancient Records

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T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1796 - 208 páginas
 

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Página cxxviii - The Lords do declare, That it is the undoubted Right of the Lords, in Judicature, to receive and determine, in Time of Parliament, Appeals from inferior Courts, altho...
Página cci - ... of grace, but of right, and ought not to be denied to the subject when duly applied for.
Página l - Whether in case a Habeas Corpus be brought, and a Warrant from the King, without any general or special cause returned, the Judges ought to deliver him before they understood the cause from the King.
Página cxcix - That every Englishman, who is imprisoned by any authority whatsoever, has an undoubted right, by his agents, or friends, to apply for, and obtain a Writ of Habeas Corpus, in order to procure his liberty by due course of law.
Página cxx - That to aflert that the houfe of commons is not the only reprefentative of the commons of England, tends to the fubverfion of the rights and privileges of the houfe of commons, and the fundamental conftitution of the government of this kingdom : That to...
Página 37 - ... that after judgment given in the courts of our Lord the King, the parties and their heirs shall be thereof in peace until the judgment be undone by attaint or by error, if there be errors, as hath been used by the laws in the times of the King's progenitors.
Página cxv - Skinner against the East India Company, should be deemed a betrayer of the rights and liberties of the commons of England, and an infringer of the privileges of the house of commons.
Página l - Upon a habeas corpus brought for one committed by the king, if the cause be not specially or generally returned, so as the court may take knowledge thereof, the party ought by the general rule of law to be delivered. But if the case be such, that the same requireth secrecy, and may not presently be disclosed, the court in discretion may forbear to deliver the prisoner for a convenient time, to the end the court may be advertised of the truth thereof.
Página lviii - That the right and liberty of the Commons of England may be cleared and vindicated as to a due exemption from any judgment, trial or other proceeding against them by the House of Peers, without the concurring judgment of the House of Commons...
Página 37 - That no man be put to anfwer without prefentment before juftices or matter of record, or by due procefs and writ original, according to the OLD LAW of the land : And if any thing be done to the contrary, it fhall be void in law, and bolden for error.

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