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共 41 段- WHAT is said of our gentlemen in general, and the propriety
- FOR, being then entirely abandoned by the clergy, a few stra
- FOR I think it is past dispute that those gentlemen, who res
- UPON these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of
- WITH regard to the first of these, the _declaratory_ part of
- BOTH these undertakings, of king Edgar and Edward the confes
- 6. CUSTOMS, though established by consent, must be (when est
- 7. WHERE the common law and a statute differ, the common law
- THUS we see how extensively the laws of Ireland communicate
- THREE of these counties, Chester, Durham, and Lancaster, are
- BOTH the life and limbs of a man are of such high value, in
- 3. A THIRD subordinate right of every Englishman is that of
- IT is highly necessary for preserving the ballance of the
- THE _privileges_ of parliament are likewise very large and i
- AND, as it is essential to the very being of parliament that
- 1. FIRST, it is in general _hereditary_, or descendible to t
- UPON Richard the second's resignation of the crown, he havin
- THIS single postulatum, the vacancy of the throne, being onc
- THE younger sons and daughters of the king, who are not in t
- PREROGATIVES are either _direct_ or _incidental_. The _direc
- AFTER what has been premised in this chapter, I shall not (I
- II. THE king is considered, in the next place, as the genera
- SECONDLY, the regulation of weights and measures. These, for
- VI. HITHER might have been referred the advantages which wer
- XV. ESTRAYS are such valuable animals as are found wandering
- THE other antient levies were in the nature of a modern land
- [Footnote i: The translator and continuator of Petavius's
- THE civil list is indeed properly the whole of the king's re
- [Footnote s: Stat. 2 Hen. V. c. 8.]
- CONSTABLES are of two sorts, high constables, and petty cons
- THE first and most obvious division of the people is into al
- [Footnote h: _per clerum et populum._ Palm. 25. 2 Roll. Rep.
- IF an action at law be brought by the patron against the bis
- LET us next take a view of a few of the principal incidents
- TO prevent the executive power from being able to oppress, s
- 1. THE first sort of servants therefore, acknowleged by the
- 3. ANOTHER incapacity arises from want of consent of parents
- FROM the duty of maintenance we may easily pass to that of
- OF the several species of guardians, the first are guardians
- [Footnote i: 10 Rep. 29. 1 Roll. Abr. 512. [Transcriber's No
- IV. WE come now, in the last place, to consider how corporat