A History of English Law, Volum 6

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Methuen & Company, 1927
 

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Side 383 - as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those that love the twilight, nutter about, amazed at what she means,
Side 236 - " That king James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Side 372 - but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that
Side 304 - "A LAW OF NATURE is a precept or general! Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved,
Side 167 - I AB do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him."
Side 155 - So as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the public peace on their parts: provided this liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy, nor to such as, under the profession of Christ, hold forth and practise licentiousness.
Side 687 - Confidences BY PAROLE of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such Trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of no effect.
Side 685 - the term of three years from, the making thereof, whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord during such term shall amount unto two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised. And moreover no Leases, Estates, Interests, either of Freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest?
Side 305 - In him consisteth the Essence of the Commonwealth ; which (to define it) is One Person, of whose Acts a great Multitude by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, to the end he may use the strength and means of them all, as he shall think expedient, for their Peace and Common Defence,
Side 290 - the state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and

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