| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...article in the petition of right 3 Car. I, that no man shall be compelled to yield any gift, loan, or benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament. And, lastly, by the statute 1 W. and M. st. 2. c. 2. it is declared, that levying money for or to the... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...in the petition of rights, 3 Charles I. that no man shall he compelled to yield any gift, loan, or benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament. And, lastly, by the Bill of Rights, statute 1 William and Mary, statute 3, c. 1, it is declared, that... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...in the petition of right*, 3 Charlci I. that no man shall be compelled to yield any gift, loan, or benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament. And, lastly, by the Bill of Rights, statute l William and Mary, statute 2, с. 2, it is declared, that... | |
| R. B. - London (England) - 1810 - 404 pages
...the substance whereof was: 1. They do pray his excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax,...charge, without common consent by act of parliament, and that none be called to make answer, or to take such oath, or to give attendance, or to be confined,... | |
| David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...realm. X. They do therefore humby pray Your most Excellent ' Majesty, That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax,...charge, without common consent, by act of parliament : And that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined,... | |
| Joseph Gabbett - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 700 pages
...inhabitants compelled to receive them ; and therefore prays and enacts, that no man shall be compelled to yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like...charge, without common consent by act of parliament, and that none he called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 736 pages
...illegality were the same. It is true, the Petition of Right says, " that no man shall be compelled to' make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax,...charge, without common consent by act of parliament;" but, my lords, it is not by the letter of the law that parliament is to be directed, but by its meaning,... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 518 pages
...a law. The enacting clauses in this important law are these ; " That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax...charge, without common consent by act of parliament ; and that none else be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or to be confined,... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 782 pages
...They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent majesty,* 1. That no man litreafter be compelled tu make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or...common consent by act of parliament ; 2. and that noue be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise... | |
| Francis Gregor - Debts, Public - 1816 - 332 pages
...same manner by all persons in all times. It is as follows : " that no man hereafter b« '* compellnd to -make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax,...such like charge, without common consent by Act of 't Parliament.'" I must remark, that the words, " by Act of Parliament?' have not only been omitted... | |
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