 | William B. Wedgwood - 1866 - 492 pages
...maxim of law that the king can do no wrong. The law ascribes to the king absolute perfection. The king is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of...thinking wrong. He can never mean to do an improper act. In him is no folly or weakness. The law also ascribes to him absolute immortality. THE KING NEVKE... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1963 - 938 pages
...proposition that the sovereign was immune from suit. "The King," reads a famous passage from Blackstone, "is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of...mean to do an improper thing; in him is no folly or weakness." 8 This theory of state infallibility and immunity was incorporated into the jurisprudence... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 pages
...therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice, (u) (3) The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doins wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness. And, therefore, if the crown should be induced to grant any franchise or privilege to a subject... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 366 pages
...the law also ascribes to the Queen in her political capacity absolute perfection ; for the Sovereign is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong, which ancient and fundamental maxim is not to be understood as if everything transacted by the Government... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 pages
...benefit of the people, and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice(rf). The sovereign, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of...can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no Tolly or weakness. And therefore if the crown should be induced to grant any franchise or privilege... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1877 - 558 pages
...everything transacted in a course of Government is Just and Laudable. The King is incapable of doing or thinking wrong ; he can never mean to do an improper Thing : in him is no folly or weakness ; and therefore if the Crown should be induced to an act, contrary to Reason, or prejudicial... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 pages
...for the benefit of the people, and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice. For the sovereign is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong. And therefore, if the crown is induced to grant any privilege to a subject prejudicial to the commonwealth... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 pages
..."The king can do no wrong. The law ascribes to the king absolute perfection. * * The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of...mean to do an improper thing; in him is no folly or weakness." Blackstone, Book I, Page 246. THE OLD MANSION. ' the law is the quintessence of justice.'"... | |
 | 1878 - 410 pages
..."The king can do no wrong. The law ascribes to the king absolute perfection. * * The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of...mean to do an improper thing; in him is no folly or weakness." Blackstoue, Book I, Page 246. ' the law is the quintessence of justice.'" By the statute... | |
 | 1878 - 554 pages
...everything transacted in a course of Government is Just and Laudable. The King is incapable of doing or thinking wrong ; he can never mean to do an improper Thing : in him is no folly or weakness ; and therefore if the Crown should be induced to an act, contrary to Reason, or prejudicial... | |
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THE king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong ; he can never mean to do an improper thing : in him is no folly or weakness. 
