 | Thomas Erskine May - 1917 - 960 pages
...sworn tive- to govern the people of this kingdom, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same." * The Act of Settlement (12 & 18 Will III. c. 2) affirms " that the laws of England are the birthright of... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - 1920 - 590 pages
...king promises to govern the people of England and the dominions thereto belonging according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same ; thus ' the statutes in parliament agreed on,' take the place of leges quas vulgus elegerit. By another... | |
 | 1922 - 380 pages
...and the respective laws .and customs of the same ? Answer-I solemnly promise so to do. Question — Will you to your power •cause law and justice, in mercy, to be executed in all your judgements ? Answer — I will." During the reigns of the first four Georges, the respective rights... | |
 | Charles Howard McIlwain - 1923 - 228 pages
...they will govern the people of the kingdom, and the dominions, thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same. When the colony directed their agents to make their humble application to king William, to grant the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1924 - 198 pages
...govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and...king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do. B 2 Archbishop, Archbishop, or bishop. — Will you to your power cause law and justice, in mercy,... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? [As prescribed by the Coronation Order of James II.] Archbishop. Sir, will you grant and keep and by... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1963 - 722 pages
...Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging, according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the laws and customs of the Realm.' " Looked at in this way, the undoubted duty of the Sovereign to protect her subjects, and the... | |
 | Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - 2003 - 440 pages
...attention to the revised coronation oath by which William and Mary were sworn to govern according to 'the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same'. Since this clause in the coronation oath is of a piece with the fate of the dispensing power, it is... | |
 | Michael Riccards - 1987 - 256 pages
..."govern the people of this Kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same." Blackstone defined the prerogative in much more specific terms than did Locke, calling it "that special... | |
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Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same ? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly... 
