The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law, Volume 7J. Rivington, 1777 |
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Page 8 - Council and them, that the King by his proclamation cannot create any offence which was not an offence before, for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point ; for if he may create an offence where none is, upon that ensues fine and imprisonment...
Page 8 - Also it was resolved, that the King hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him.
Page 4 - Nevil might have excused himself to the king, or he might have waved it, and submitted himself to his fine; as one who is distrained to be a knight, or one learned in the law is called to be a serjeant, the writ cannot make him a knight or a serjeant. And when one is called by writ to parliament, the order is, that he be apparelled in his parliament...
Page 7 - I said, that the King cannot change any part of the common law, nor create any offence by his proclamation, which was not an offence before, without Parliament.
Page 7 - Seal said, that the physician was not always bound to a precedent, but to apply his medicine according to the quality of the disease: and all concluded that it should be necessary at that time to confirm the King's prerogative with our opinions, although that there were not any former precedent or authority in law : for every precedent ought to have a commencement. To which I answered, that true it is that every precedent...