 | Lysander Spooner - History - 1852 - 224 pages
...obligation of laws, and as he held that the legislative power was " so transcendent and absolute as (that) it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds," f he was perhaps honest in holding that it was safer to trust this terrific power in the hands of parliament,... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 502 pages
...succession to the throne. To conclude, in the words of Sir Edward Coke, the power of parliament "is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be confined,...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." 2. Distribution of Powers between King, Lords, and Commons. — Custom and convenience have assigned... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1854 - 492 pages
...The power and jurisdiction of parliament," says Sir Edward Coke (4 Inst. 36), " is so transcendant and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds. And of this high court," he adds, " may be truly said, ' Si antiquitatem species, est vetustissima... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 612 pages
...doubtless, is a true exposition of the power of the parliament of Great Britain, which is said to be " so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined,...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." So thought Lord COKE. (4 Inst. 36, and Black. 1st vol. Com. 140.) Such also is the opinion of Chancellor... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858 - 718 pages
...considered as one aggregate body. The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke (x), is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds. And of this high court, he adds, it may be truly said, " si antiquitatem spectes, est vetustissima... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 724 pages
...those terms in the constitution. (4 Cokds List. 36.) " The power and jurisdiction of parliament is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds. Lord Camden, (Sutick v. Carringlon, 19 How. St. Tr. 1066,) having spoken of property as sacred, he... | |
 | Fires - 1858 - 202 pages
...British parliament by virtue of its peculiar power and jurisdiction, which, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined either for causes or persons within any bound,* and yet in the next paragraph the Court, as before remarked, says that the power of the Legislature... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...Coke, in 4 Institutes, 36, says of the power of parliament, that " it is transcendent and absolute, and that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds." And Blackstone, in 1 Comm. p. 161, says that " it can do every thing that is not naturally impossible,"... | |
 | One of themselves (pseud.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...short an oration whenever she wanted to perpetrate one * The power, and jurisdiction of Parliament is so transcendent, and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within bounds. ... It can, in short, do anything that ie not naturally impossible.— SIR E. COKE. herself,... | |
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The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds. 
