| Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...any other potentate upon earth. Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the King, ins All jurisdiction implies superiority of power ; authority to try would be vain and idle without authority... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 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: iiuthority to try would be vain and idle, without... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 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. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power: authority to try would be vain and idle, without... | |
| William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 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... | |
| William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 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... | |
| Robert Mayo - Commercial law - 1847 - 486 pages
...pre-eminence," &c. " Hence it is, says he, that no suit or action cun 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... | |
| Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...subjection to any other potentate upon earth. No suit or action, therefore, can be brought against the King, even in civil matters ; because no court can have jurisdiction over him. But the law hath not left the subject without remedy ; for as to private injuries, in respect of property... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...empire, and his crown imperial. Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the sovereign, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. Who, says Pinch, shall command the king ? Hence it is, likewise, that the person of the sovereign is... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 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." ' This last position is only a branch of a much... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 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... | |
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