The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: To the revolution of 1688. 3 vJ. Murray, 1845 - Judges |
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... appears to have risen into great im- portance by the same means . Magnitudinem virorum qui eo munere [ Can- cellarii ] fungebantur , vires decusque illi attulisse crediderim , ut ab exiguis initiis ad tantam majestatem pervenerit ...
... appears to have risen into great im- portance by the same means . Magnitudinem virorum qui eo munere [ Can- cellarii ] fungebantur , vires decusque illi attulisse crediderim , ut ab exiguis initiis ad tantam majestatem pervenerit ...
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... appear and to be ex- amined , either personally or upon written interrogatories ; and evidence being heard on both sides , without the inter- position of a jury , an order was made secundum æquum et bonum , which was enforced by ...
... appear and to be ex- amined , either personally or upon written interrogatories ; and evidence being heard on both sides , without the inter- position of a jury , an order was made secundum æquum et bonum , which was enforced by ...
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... appears that his equitable jurisdiction was well established long anterior to the time when such cases came before him , and that the earliest applications to him for relief were from those who suffered by direct violence and the ...
... appears that his equitable jurisdiction was well established long anterior to the time when such cases came before him , and that the earliest applications to him for relief were from those who suffered by direct violence and the ...
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... appears that he is purposely withdrawing himself from the jurisdiction of the court , to the disappointment of honest creditors . effected by the writ " ne exeat regno , " issuing under the great seal ; - ; —a high prerogative remedy ...
... appears that he is purposely withdrawing himself from the jurisdiction of the court , to the disappointment of honest creditors . effected by the writ " ne exeat regno , " issuing under the great seal ; - ; —a high prerogative remedy ...
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... and vote till the following day , when the entry of his name and office appears in the same place , " Dominus Brougham et Vaux Cancel- larius . " the resolutions of the House according to the directions he 16 LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND .
... and vote till the following day , when the entry of his name and office appears in the same place , " Dominus Brougham et Vaux Cancel- larius . " the resolutions of the House according to the directions he 16 LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND .
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Page 413 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 326 - Mammon led them on — Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 12 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 339 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 497 - Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 530 - Howbeit if we have more now than ye shall need, and which can get them other masters, ye may then discharge us of them. But I would not that any man were...
Page 498 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber on my knees, the space of an hour or two, to persuade him from his will and appetite: but I could never bring to pass to dissuade him therefrom. Therefore, Master Kingston, if it chance hereafter you to be one of his privy council, as for your wisdom and other qualities ye are meet to be, I warn you to be well advised and assured what matter ye put in. his head, for ye shall never put it out again.
Page 148 - Seal to be kept, which said seal we received from him on Tuesday next after the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the 45th year of our reign.
Page 270 - England was deprived at once of both these princes, its chief ornament and support: he expired in the sixty-fifth year of his age and the fifty-first of his reign; and the people were then sensible, though too late, of the irreparable loss which they had sustained.
Page 578 - From whom after she was departed, she — not satisfied with the former sight of him, and like one that had forgotten herself, being all ravished with the entire love of her dear father, having respect neither to herself nor to the press of...