| David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 pages
...than twenty names shall be signed to any petition to the Crown or either House of Parliament, for any alteration of matters established by law in Church or State ; unless the contents thereof be previously approved, in the country, by three justices, or the majority of the... | |
| David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 366 pages
...than twenty names shall be signed to any petition to the Crown or either House of Parliament for any alteration of matters established by law in Church or State, unless the contents thereof be previously approved, iu the country, by three justices, or the majority of the... | |
| Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 724 pages
...than twenty names shall be signed to any petition to the Crown or either house of parliament for the alteration of matters established by law in Church or State : unless the contents thereof be previously approved, in the country, by three justices, or the majority of the... | |
| James Paterson - 1880 - 612 pages
...check it. The Act of 1661 enacts that none shall solicit the consent of more than twenty persons to a petition to the King or either House of Parliament...law in Church or State, unless the matter thereof have been first consented to or ordered by three justices of the peace, or the grand jury at Assizes... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1880 - 762 pages
...persons ; nor shall any one procure above twenty persons to consent or set their hands to any petition for alteration of matters established by law in church or state, unless with the previous order of three justices of the county, or the major part of the grand jury. § 17.... | |
| Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 468 pages
...more than twenty persons to any petition or address to the Queen, or to either House or both Houses of Parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in Church or State, unless the matter of the petition or address has been first consented to and ordered by three or more justices of the... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1883 - 658 pages
...justly denominated him, an act of Parliament was passed, abridging the right of petition. It declared that "no petition to the king or either House of Parliament, for any alteration in Church or State, shall be signed by above twenty persons, unless the matter thereof... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - 1883 - 908 pages
...than twenty names shall be signed to any petition to the King or either House of Parliament for any alteration of matters established by law in church or state, unless the contents thereof be previously approved, in the country by three justices, or the majority of the grand... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 pages
...their own particular burthen to the community at large.1 By the 13 Car. II. st. I, c. 5, it was enacted that no petition to the King or either House of Parliament...established by law in Church or State (unless the contents thereof had been previously approved, in the country by three justices of the peace or the... | |
| Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - 1888 - 674 pages
...II. St. 1, c. 5, it is enacted that not petition to the crown or either house of parliament for any alteration of matters established by law in church or state: unless the contente thereof be previously approved in the country by three justices, or the majority of the grand... | |
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