 England the sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts, therefore, he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul.  A Series of Letters from London: Written During the Years 1856, '57, '58 ... - Page 206by George Mifflin Dallas, Julia Dallas - 1869 - 481 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...other publio quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul. And yet, lest this plenitude of authority should be abused to the detriment of the public, the constitution... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - War - 1878 - 588 pages
...of the British constitution, as stated by Blackstone, is, that ' whatever contracts the king engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul.' Nevertheless, the treaty binds nobody till its provisions are enacted by law, and a treaty cannot be... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1880 - 824 pages
...sovereign power, quoad hoe, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist or annul. And yet, lest this plenitude of authority should be abused to the detriment of the publie, the constitution... | |
 | Ernst Seligmann - Law - 1886 - 524 pages
...sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the King. Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the Kingdom can legally delay, resist or annul". juftanbe», fic fei bort, luic bie ftetige îluffafjung bcr ^vojia enjebe, ancrfnnnt. ,§icr ift ber... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...community. In England that power is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can 'legally delay, resist or annul. The king's ministers, however, may be impeached, who from criminal motives, advise the framing of a... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...king-s prerogative to make treaties, leagues, and alliances, with foreign states and princes, and that no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul them.' If treaties entered into by Congress nre not to be held in the same sacred light in America,... | |
 | Bruno Weil - Constitutional law - 1906 - 152 pages
...sovereign power, quoad hoc, is wested in the person of the King ; whatever contracts therefore he engages in no other power in the Kingdom, can legally delay, resist or anull."2) Im Anschluss an diese Sätze hatte Gneist behauptet, „dass es normaler ') Gnetst, Gutachten... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - Constitutional history - 1911 - 584 pages
...England the sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the king. Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist or annul'.' Now in contradiction to this we may, I believe, say that a treaty made by the king has in general no... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1915 - 480 pages
...sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts, therefore, he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist or annul. And yet, lest this plenitude of authority should be abused to the detriment of the public, the constitution,... | |
 | International Joint Commission - Milk River (Mont. and Alta.) - 1915 - 314 pages
...sovereign power, quoad hoc. is vested in the person of the King. Whatever contracts, therefore, he ensages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist, or annul. And yet, lest this plenitude of authority should he abused to the detriment of the public, the constitution,... | |
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