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The Jurisdiction of the Lords House, or Parliament; Considered According to Ancient Records
The Jurisdiction of the Lords House or Parliament Considered According to Ancient Records Author:Sir Matthew Hale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1796 Original Publisher: T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) Subjects: Constitutional law Great Britain Law / General Law / Constitutional Literary Collections / General Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Political Science /... more » Constitutions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. IV. Concerning The CONSILIUM REGIS ORDINARIUM, And THEIR JURISDICTION. IH A V E in the former chapter (hewed of what perfons this con- Jilium ordinarium did confift; and likewife that they were a diftindt body from the grand council and lords in parliament, which might be further evinced by many more records proving it. There have been anciently two opinions concerning this confillum regis. Some have thought, that it is the moft ancient court of ordinary jurifdiftion, next to the parliament; and that there was lodged in it the plenitude of all civil jurifdiftion; and was as it were the common mother of thofe great courts, the chancery, king's bench, common pleas, and exchequer; and that the judges, and others, that had jurif- didlion in thofe courts above named, were anciently but as fo many diftributions of the members of this council for the better difpatch of bufmcfs and eafe of themfelves and the people, as it were fo many fub-committees or fub-delegates taken by the king out of this council for that purpofe; but that ftill this con/ilium in its collective body retained their primitive and original jurifdidtion. And this they endeavour to prove, -- i. By the ancient jurifdidtion they exercifed in decilions of matters civil and criminal, whereof hereafter. i. By the co-adminiftration of this con/Ilium regis in thef...« less