Address of Hon. William Renwick Riddell: Reprinted From the Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Missouri Bar ... September 17 and 18, 1909 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Riddell, William Renwick

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ISBN 10: 0266043593 ISBN 13: 9780266043591

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Address of Hon. William Renwick Riddell: Reprinted From the Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Missouri Bar Association, Held at Pertle Springs, Missouri, Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18, 1909

But still much j:alousy continued to be manifested from time to time at the exercise of this extraordinary jurisdiction (the jurisdiction of the t'ourts we; ordina: by the ancient body - salutary and necessary as it in many cases undoubted ly was. At last it Was thought proper to give statutory nu thority to its proceedings and a Statute was passed in 1487 (8 Henry 7, C. Before this Act the King's Council sat as a rule in the Star Chamber, and when the legislation came to be passed, it mentioned specifically the Court of Star Chamber. This, as Hallam long ago showed. Was a kind of Committee, that is a Judicial Committee, of the King a Privy Council. The Court of Star Chamber (as has been shown by recent investigation of its records, still extant) it many cases acted not as a statutory body at all but under the original Common Law jurisdiction of the Privy Council; and indeed did not conceive of itself as being of statutory origin. Moreover. The Privy Council also contin ued at times and in certain cases, e. G., in cases of riot. To act outside of the Star Chamber and as the Privy Council had acted before the Statute. Whether the Court of Star Chamber was a ('ourt appears within a few years after the passage of the Act to have been questioned by the Common Law Judges; the gri at authority of Coke is that the judg ment of these Judges was a sudden opinion.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0266043593
• ISBN 13: 9780266043591
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 28