 | John Wade - 1820 - 496 pages
...a vast majority of the house, disqualified for their seats by the Act of Settlement, which says, " no person who has an office or place of profit under the king," &c. See the motto. 6.— Miscellaneous. These are principally bankers, a few merchants and traders,... | |
 | John Somers Baron Somers - 1821 - 162 pages
...designed as a check on the executive power, it was wisely ordained by the Act of Settlement that, " no person who has an office or place of profit under...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons." By subsequent enactments this was repealed; ministers and their minions now swarm in the... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...rights and liber" " ties of the subject," — it was wisely " and honestly thus enacted — " That no " " person who has an office or place of " " profit...capable of serving as a member of " " the House of Commons." — But Mr. Wliitbread, it seems, never heard of " this provision — " for better securing... | |
 | John Nicholls - 1822 - 684 pages
...idea, when we consider the words which they have used in the statute: the words are these: — " That no person who has an office or place of profit under...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons." Let any man consider these expressions attentively, and then let him ask himself whether... | |
 | John Nicholls - 1822 - 264 pages
...tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him ; 9.5 that no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the House of Commons ; that after the limitation shall take effect, Judges' commissions be... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 516 pages
...lands, tenements, or hereditaments, from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him: that no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons: that, after the limitation shall take effect, judges' commissions be... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - 1822 - 652 pages
...limitation in the house of Hanover, no person in an office or place of profit under the king, or who receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons; but by the st 4 & 5 Ann. 8. this was repealed. " By the st 4 & 5 Ann. 8. no person, who, in... | |
 | 1824 - 822 pages
...By the Act of Settlement, it was ordained that no person who has an office, or place of profit, from the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons, which was subsequently modified by acts of Parliament, passed in the reigns of Queen Anne... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 656 pages
...lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him: that no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of tbe house of commons: that, after the limitation '-ii .11 take effect, judges* commissions... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 426 pages
...the solemn compact between the reigning dynasty and the nation has provided in express terms, " That no person who has an office, or place of profit under the King, or who receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons;"... | |
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That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons. 
