 | Alexander James Dallas - 1906 - 458 pages
...any other potentate upon 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." This last position is only a branch of a much... | |
 | James Brown Scott, United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 572 pages
...any other potentate upon 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 '.3 The principle to be derived from this, Mr.... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1922 - 974 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1924 - 196 pages
...commons ; and to interpret, by his judges, in statutes and cases which are not defined by law. But though he be entrusted with the whole executive power...brought against him even in civil matters, because no couH can have jurisdiction over him. The law also ascribes to the king, in his political capacity,... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1924 - 530 pages
...any other potentate upon 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 950 pages
...any other potentate upon 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." 'Пик last position is only a branca of a much... | |
 | Sir David Lindsay Keir, Frederick Henry Lawson - 1928 - 520 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... | |
 | New Brunswick. Supreme Court - 1877 - 748 pages
...cannot sit in judgment in any Court. It is laid down in Bac. Abr. "Courts" (BJ that " 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1883 - 650 pages
...potentate on earth. VOL. IV., NS Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against tbe 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1955 - 114 pages
...stems from the ancient proposition that: "* * * [N]o suit or action can be brought against the king even in civil matters, because no court- can have jurisdiction over him * * *" (1 Cooley's Blackstone 212). Cooley cites American precedents including Gibbons v. US ((1868)... | |
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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. 
