 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
