OPINIONS

OF

EMINENT LAWYERS,

ON VARIOUS POINTS OF

ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE.

T. DAVISON, Lombard-street,
Whitefriars, London.

OF

EMINENT LAWYERS,

ON VARIOUS POINTS OF

ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE,

CHIEFLY CONCERNING THE

COLONIES, FISHERIES, AND COMMERCE,

OF

Great Britain :

COLLECTED, AND DIGESTED, FROM THE ORIGINALS, IN
THE BOARD OF TRADE, AND OTHER DEPOSITORIES.

BY GEORGE CHALMERS, Esq. F.R.S. AND S.A.

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OPINIONS

OF

EMINENT LAWYERS

ON VARIOUS POINTS OF

ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE.

VI. Or the various modifications of the constituted assembly's accustomed powers.

(1.) The opinion of the attorney-general Raymond, that an act of assembly has the same effect in the colony, as an act of parliament has in the mother country,

To the right hon. the lords commissioners of trade and plantations.

In obedience to your lordships' commands, signified to me by Mr. Popple's letter, bearing date the 24th of July last, I have considered of an act, which was passed in Barbadoes, the 1st of August

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