 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 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... | |
 | Jesse Addams - 1823 - 598 pages
...and ecclesiastical." " Hence it is," he adds, "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... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent Wanostrocht - 1823 - 872 pages
...no man, accountable to no man. 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. Hence it is, likewise, that by law the person of the king is sacred, even though the measures pursued... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...ecclesiastical, owing no kind of subjection to any other potentate upon earth. No suit or action, therefore, can be brought against him, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. But the law has not left the subject without remedy : for as to private injuries, if any one has a... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 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... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 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... | |
 | Thomas Robson (engraver.) - 1830 - 692 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. Hence it is, likewise, that, by law, the person of the king is sacred, even though the measures pursued... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1831 - 564 pages
...ecclesiastical. " " Hence it is," he adds, " 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... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pages
...sub nullo, nisi tantum sub Deo 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... | |
 | George Okill Stuart - 1834 - 652 pages
...like attribute of pre-eminence or supreme power 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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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. 
