Report of proceedings on the claim to the earldom of Devon in the House of lords. With notes and an appendixClarke, 1832 - 199 pàgines |
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act of parliament alienation anno annuity ARGUMENT assent of parliament attainder barony begotten blood body charter Chief Justice claim collateral heir comitis comitis Devon common law created Earl creation Crown daughter descend died without issue dignity of Earl donis conditionalibus Duke Duke of Ireland Earl of Devon Earl of Oxford Earl of Westmorland EARLDOM OF DEVON Earldom of Oxford Edward Courtenay entailed estate tail fee simple forfeited fuit grant heirs male Henry heredibus honorem Hugh Courtenay Hugonis imppm inheritance issue male judges King lands letters patent limitation LORD CHANCELLOR lordships Lovell masculis Nevill's Nicolas nomen nři nup comitis OBSERVATIONS opinion Parl pdci pdict peer peerage Pepys person possessio fratris possession Powderham ptiñ Ralph Nevill realm regni remainder Report Rolls of Parliament rules of law Ruthyn seised Sir Edward Coke Sir Edward Courtenay Sir William Courtenay statute De donis tenements Thomas VIII Viscount wife writ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 131 - ... wools, that is to wit, a toll of forty shillings for every sack of wool, and have made petition to us to release the same ; we, at their requests, have...
Pàgina xlvi - Anne by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five.
Pàgina cliv - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Pàgina 121 - ... recognition of it by this House. Yet time would be the instrument of injustice if it operated to raise any legal bar to the claimant's right. Questions of peerage are not fettered by the rules of law that prescribe the limitation of actions, and it is one of the brightest privileges of our order, that we transmit to our descendants a title to the honours we have inherited or earned ; which is incapable either of alienation or surrender.
Pàgina cliii - ... times when the government was unsettled and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose...
Pàgina cliii - De Vere, by so many ages, descents, and generations, as no other kingdom can produce such a peer in one and the self-same name and title.
Pàgina cli - that John, the Fifth Earl of Oxford, dying without Issue, those Baronies descended upon his Sisters and Heirs, but these Dignities being entire, and not dividable, they became incapable of the same, otherwise than by Gift from the Crown, and they, in Strictness of Law, reverted unto and were in the Disposition of King Henry the Eighth.
Pàgina 111 - ... and against the party : whereas the grant of a subject is construed most strongly against the grantor. Wherefore it is usual to insert in the king's grants, that they are made, not at the suit of the grantee, but " ex speciali gratia, certa scientia, et mero " motu regis " and then they have a more liberal construction '. 2.
Pàgina xliv - Eighteenth yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God...
Pàgina cliii - I may well say, illustris honoris, illustrious honour. I heard a great peer of this realm, and a learned, say, when he lived there was no king in Christendom had such a subject as Oxford.