Jus parliamentarium or, the antient power, jurisdiction, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the most high court of Parliament. In two parts. Part I. I. Concerning Annual Parliaments, called for redressing such Things as required Amendment, and finally determining such Cases where the Law failed, and the Judges differed in their Opinions. II. Several Authorities to prove that in any difficult Cases arising in Westminster-Hall the Judges adjourned such Causes propter difficultatem usque ad Parliamentum. III. Several curious Precedents, proving that an Award in Parliament was in so high a Regard in the Law, that it could not be altered or changed by any Interpretation of the Judges. IV. Where any Doubts arose amongst Lawyers, what the Common Law was in Cases of great Importance, that they were by the antient Course and Practice not settled by the Judges only, but by the Law-Making Power of the Kingdom. V.

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Main Author: Petyt, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for C?sar Ward and Richard Chandler, Booksellers, at the Ship without Temple-Bar, and at York and at Scarborough 1741, MDCCXLI. [1741]
Edition:The second edition
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, N29611. - Price from imprint: Price One Guinea bound. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library. - Text continuous despite pagination. - With a list of subscribers
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