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" And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed,... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 271
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Portfolio, Volume 1

David Urquhart - 1843 - 584 pages
...is remarkably strong.t " In many cases the Common Law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void. For, when an act...repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the Common Law will contradict, and adjudge such act to be void." A proposition, which was warmly eulogised in modern...
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American Criminal Trials, Volume 2

Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - 410 pages
...according to the law of the land." In Bacon's Abridgment we read, " if a statute be against common right or reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void." Here permit me, may it please your honors, to apply the authority to...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 pages
...cases the common law shall control acts of parliament, and sometimes shall judge them to be merely void ; for when.' an act of parliament is against common right and reason, the law shall control it and adjudge it void." — Dr. Bonham's case, S Rep. When questioned for this...
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A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections, Volume 9

Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...Lord Coke lays it down that the common law will sometimes control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act...repugnant or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void, and he cites several instances. 8 Coke, 1 18 a, (ed....
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 3

1846 - 698 pages
...land, and are cemented and sanctified by the bond of christian charity. And Lord Coke has held that ' when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, and impossible to be performed, that common law will control it and adjudge such act to be void.' The...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1847 - 794 pages
...contemand sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; , plate those powers without alarm. They had abolfor when an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant and impossible to be5 performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge it void." It is clear...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...doctrine has been laid down in several English authorities, that if a statute be against common right or reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law shall control it, and pronounce it void.(a) Although it is said that judges will not hold a statute void unless it...
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Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls ..., Volume 12

Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Beavan - 1851 - 716 pages
...appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will controul acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void; for when an act of...repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will controul it and adjudge such act to be void." 1 IS b. " So, if any act of parliament gives to...
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Report of Cases in Chancery: Argued and Determined in the Rolls ..., Volume 12

Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Beavan - 1851 - 706 pages
...appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will controul acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void; for when an act of...repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will controul it and adjudge such act to be void." 118 b. " So, if any act of parliament gives to any...
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Local self-government and centralization

Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1851 - 456 pages
...high authority, " that, in many cases, the Common Law will control acts of Parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of Parliament is against Common Rightf and reason, the Common Law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void."J What has heretofore...
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