| 1919 - 878 pages
...of Lords, and the House of Commons, or, as described in the enacting formula of acts of Parliament, the King's most excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons. These are not as is often, but erroneously, supposed, the three estates of the realm. The... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1924 - 546 pages
...said merchants, touching the Spanish cruelties, and the inequality of their laws ; directed thus : To the King's most excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to the rest of this honourable Court : The humble petition of the merchants of England, now most intolerably... | |
| William Bourke Cockran - 1925 - 432 pages
...the king is still the fountain of law. Every statute begins with a declaration that it is enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty — the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons being described as merely assenting and advising. But as a matter of fact during the last two... | |
| 1928 - 508 pages
...by experience hath since been found to be a good and profitable law: II. Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said act... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 722 pages
...there was brought in a Bill which declared "That the King's Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient... | |
| 1909 - 310 pages
...the King is still the fountain of law. Every statute begins with a declaration that it is enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty; — the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons being described as merely assenting and advising. But as matter of fact during the last two... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2004 - 260 pages
...Act in 1766. The relevant passage states: "That the King's Majesty, by and with the consent of the lords, spiritual and temporal, and the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient... | |
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