 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...principle in the English law, that an act of parliament, delivered in clear and intelligible terms, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any court of justice. "It is," says Sir William Blackstone, "the exercise of the highest authority that the kingdom acknowledges... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...principle in the English law, that an act of the legislature, delivered in clear and intelligible terms, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any court of justice. But this principle does not prevail in the United States; though, if there be no constitutional objection... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 440 pages
...are nought. In this our Legislative bodies differ from the English Parliament, an act of which, ill terms being explicit, and its meaning plain, cannot...reason, it would be adjudged void by the Common Law, (Bonhain Case, 8 Rep. 116.) An opinion which the honest and intrepid Holt afterwards manfully endorsed.... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...received doctrine certainly is, that an act of Parliament, of which the terms are explicit and the meaning plain, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any Court of Justice," and "where the meaning is plain, to regard consequences. in the interpretation, would be assuming legislative... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...principle in the English law, that an act of parliament, delivered in clear and intelligible terms, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled, in any court of justice. ^'It is," says Sir William Blackstone, "the exercise of the highest authority that the kingdom acknowledges... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...and received doctrine certainly is, that an act of Parliament of which the terms are explicit and the meaning plain, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any court of justice." In the recent discussion which took place in the English courts, on the subject of the privilege of... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...principle in the English law, that on act of parliament, delivered iu clenr »tul intelligible terms, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any court of justice. A statute begins to operate from the timo that it receiver the royal assent, unless some other time... | |
 | Oliver Morris Wilson - Constitutional law - 1869 - 588 pages
...received doctrine certainly is, that an Act of Parliament of which the terms are explicit, and the meaning plain, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled, in any court of justice."8 1522. " In this country, a disposition has been manifested — and by high authority —... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1871 - 524 pages
...received doctrine certainly is, that an Act " of Parliament of which the terms are explicit and the meaning " plain, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled, in any "court of justice. Yet Sir Edward Coke, manfully, if not con" vincingly, defended his opinion before the Council, and... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...received doctrine certainly is, that an act of Parliament, of which the terms are explicit and the meaning plain, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled in any court of justice." In the recent discussiou which took place in the English courts, on the subject of the privilege of... | |
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It is a principle in the English law, that an act of parliament, delivered in clear and intelligible terms, cannot be questioned, or its authority controlled, in any court of justice. 
