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" Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. "
The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror - Page 85
1825
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The Student's Blackstone: Being the Commentaries on the Laws of England of ...

William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 pages
...an empire, and his crown imperial. Hence it is, that no action can be brought against the sovereign, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. Hence it is, likewise, that the person of the sovereign is sacred, even though the measures of his...
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Essentials of the Law : a Review of Blackstone's Commentaries for the Use of ...

Marshall Davis Ewell - 1882 - 60 pages
...of sovereignty, or pre-eminence. Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power. [242] Hence it is likewise, that by law the person...
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Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and ..., Volume 32

Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1883 - 1016 pages
...to any other potentate on earth. Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power; authority to try would be vain and idle without...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 118

Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1889 - 676 pages
...the judicature only belongeth to the judges." 4 List. 73. Matthew Bacon said : " The king himself, though he be entrusted with the whole executive power of the law, can not sit in judgment in any court, but his justice, and the laws, must be administered according...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 12

John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1890 - 1194 pages
...' the judicature only belongeth to the judges.' 4 Inst. 73. MATTHEW BACON said: 'The king himself, though he be entrusted with the whole executive power of the law, cannot sit in judgment in any court, but his justice and the laws must be administered according to...
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The Most Material Parts of Blackstone's Commentaries, Reduced to Questions ...

John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...majesty is his perpetuity. 7. Can suit or action be brought against the king ? — 242. It cannot, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. 8. Is the person of the king sacred ? — 242. By law, the person of the king is sacred, even though...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 154

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1894 - 736 pages
...England, Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 411, and "no suit or action can be brought against the King even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him." 1 Bl. Com. 241. The foundation of the doctrine shows it to be applicable to governmental affairs. In...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 154

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1894 - 742 pages
...England, Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 411, and "no suit or action can be brought against the King even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him." 1 Bl. Com. 241. The foundation of the doctrine shows it to be applicable to governmental affairs. In...
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Blackstone's Commentaries Abridged

William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1899 - 570 pages
...of sovereignty or pre-eminence. Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power: authority to try would be vain and idle, without...
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Readings on the History and System of the Common Law

1904 - 412 pages
...sovereignty, or pre-eminence. . . . Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power: authority to try would be in vain and idle, without...
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