 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1810 - 722 pages
...hath a judicial place ; he takes it out of Henry 7, and so the book is expressly. And he goes on : This is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of matters of parliament ; because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but ' secundum ' legena... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William Pyle Taunton - 1815 - 860 pages
...cannot take notice of any thing faid or done in the Houfe of Commons, but by the report of the Houfe of Commons, and every member of the parliament hath a judicial place, and can be no witnefs. And this is the reafon that Judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament,... | |
 | 1816 - 714 pages
...a judicial place ; he takes it out of Henry 7, and so the book is expressly. And he goes on : Thus is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of matters of parliament ; because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but ' secundum legem et... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1832 - 756 pages
...that place to which it relates, and not elsewhere." [1 Blackstone's Commentary, 120.] Lord Coke. " And this is the reason that judges ought not to give...Parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common law, but sccundum legem el consuetudinem Parliamenli." [4 Imt.] In the King's Bench, the court held... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 522 pages
...courts." — And after founding himself on this very precedent of the llth of Richard II, he adds, " This is the reason " that Judges ought not to give...opinion " of a matter of Parliament, because it is not u 3 "to " to be decided by the common laws but se~ " cundem legem <§* consuetudinem Parliament! :... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1832 - 756 pages
...elsewhere." [1 Slaekstone's Commentary, 120.] Lord Coke. " And this is the reason that judges ought of not to give any opinion of a matter of Parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common law, but secundum legem et consuetudinem ParKamenti." [4 Inst.] In the King's Bench, the court held... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 558 pages
...afier founding himself on this very precedent of the llth of Richard II, he adds, " This is the reusrn that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of f,orframent. hecause it u not to he decided hy the common law , hut tecundumlegem st censuettutineat... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 718 pages
...340 Supposed ignorance of the common-law judges respecting the law of parliament (Queen v. Paly), 340 Judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, 340 Thorpe's case, 31 & 32 Henry VI., 340 Illustration of the restricted powers of the common-law courts... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...into the existence and nature of privileges claimed by cither house ot parliament. Coke lays it down that 'judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, because it is nut to be decided by the common laws, but secundum leges et comuetudiiiem parliamenti ; and so the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1844 - 514 pages
...ought to be discussed and adjudged in that house to which it relates, and not elsewhere ;" ' and again, that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of privilege, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum leges et consuetudinem... | |
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And this is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum legem et consuetudinem parliamenti, and so the judges in divers parliaments have confessed. 
