A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor: Containing All the Cases of Peerage, Together with the Mode of Proceeding in Claims of this KindA. Strahan, 1823 - 322 pages |
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Other editions - View all
A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor ... William Cruise No preview available - 2016 |
Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor ... William Cruise No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
26 Henry VIII abeyance ancestor ancient barony annexed appears attainted attorney Banbury baroniam Berkeley body called castle claimant Clifford coheirs Collins comitatus corruption of blood court creation crown curia regis daughter death descended died without issue dignity duke earl marshal earl of Arundel earldom eldest Elizabeth England escheat estate tail father fee simple feudal forfeited forfeiture granted heirs male held Henry VI Henry VIII high treason house of lords house of peers infra inheritance Inst issue male James John Journ king Henry king Henry III king's Kingston Lisle knight lands letters patent lineal lord Coke lordships majesty manor parlia pedigree peerage petition petitioner possession quæ quod referred regis regni reign of king resolved Richard Say and Sele seat seised Selden sitting in parliament statute de donis summoned to parliament tenant in tail tenure Thomas title of honor viscount William Willoughby writ of summons
Popular passages
Page 285 - ... that presumption is encountered by such evidence as proves, to the satisfaction of those who are to decide the question, that such sexual intercourse did not take place at any time, when by such intercourse the husband could, according to the laws of' nature, be the father of such child.
Page 100 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.
Page 285 - Where the legitimacy of a child in such a case is disputed, on the ground that the husband was not the father of such child, the question to be left to the jury is, whether the husband was the father of such child, and the evidence to prove that he was not the father, must be of such facts and circumstances, as are sufficient to prove, to the satisfaction of a jury, that no sexual intercourse took place between the husband and wife at anytime when by such intercourse the husband, by the laws of nature,...
Page 92 - Britain may hereafter enjoy the same except the Right and Privilege of sitting in the House of Lords and the Privileges depending thereon and particularly the Right of sitting upon the Trials of Peers.
Page 100 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 89 - That no patent of honour granted to any Peer of Great Britain who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union can enable such Peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or to sit upon the trial of Peers...
Page 44 - Surrey and the heirs male of his body and for default of such issue...
Page 100 - I heard a great peer of this realm, and a learned, say, when he lived there was no king in Christendom had such a subject as Oxford.
Page 61 - Stafford from the time whereof the memory of Man is not to the contrary, have...
Page 268 - Courts of law are obliged, in cases of this kind, to depart from the ordinary rules of evidence, as it would be impossible...