Jus parliamentarium: or, the antient power, jurisdiction, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the most high court of Parliament. In two parts. Part I. I. Concerning Annual Parliaments, called for redressing such Things as required Amendment, and finally determining such Cases where the Law failed, and the Judges differed in their Opinions. II. Several Authorities to prove that in any difficult Cases arising in Westminster-Hall the Judges adjourned such Causes propter difficultatem usque ad Parliamentum. III. Several curious Precedents, proving that an Award in Parliament was in so high a Regard in the Law, that it could not be altered or changed by any Interpretation of the Judges. IV. Where any Doubts arose amongst Lawyers, what the Common Law was in Cases of great Importance, that they were by the antient Course and Practice not settled by the Judges only, but by the Law-Making Power of the Kingdom. V. Where former Statutes have seemed dark and dubious, and, by the Subtilty of learned L

People / Organizations

• William Petyt (Author)
• Cæsar Ward ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for C?sar Ward and Richard Chandler, Booksellers, at the Ship without Temple-Bar, and at York and at Scarborough, MDCCXLI. [1741] The second edition.; ..

Publication year

1741

ESTC No.

N29611

Grub Street ID

18710

Description

[22],xxiv,197,182-400p. ; 2°.

Note

Text continuous despite pagination

With a list of subscribers

Price from imprint: Price One Guinea bound.

Uncontrolled note

Page numbers 181-197 (1st sequence) in square brackets