A Digested Abridgment, and Comparative View, of the Statute Law of England and Ireland: To the Year 1811, Inclusive : Analytically Arranged in the Order of Sir W. Blackstone's Commentaries : with a Chronological Table of the Statutes, and an Index to the Work, Volume 2, Part 1

Front Cover
Graisberry and Campbell, 1812 - Law reports, digests, etc

From inside the book

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 375 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 102 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate...
Page 406 - I do declare, That I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 375 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words— I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page 597 - ... and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court or person before whom the perjury was committed.
Page 407 - I am or may become entitled, to disturb the Protestant religion or Protestant government in this kingdom : And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, t :stify, and declare, that I do make this declaration and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatever...
Page 596 - II. c. 11. that in every indictment and information for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom the oath was taken, (averring such court, or person or persons to have a competent authority to administer the same...
Page 406 - Attempts whatever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Treasons and traitorous Conspiracies which may be formed against him or them...
Page 206 - That all Actions of Trespass, Quare clausum fregit, all Actions of Trespass, Detinue, Action sur Trover, and Replevin for taking away of Goods and Cattle, all Actions of Account, and upon the Case, other than such Accounts as concern the Trade of Merchandize between Merchant and Merchant, their Factors or Servants, all Actions of Debt grounded upon any Lending or Contract without Specialty...
Page 358 - Realm, shall by Writing, Printing, Teaching, or advised Speaking deny any one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or shall assert or maintain there are more Gods than one, or shall deny the Christian Religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority...

Bibliographic information