Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries
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ISBN13: 9781459024496
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Section IV. OF THE COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. 93-120. The Kingdom of England, over which our municipal laws have jurisdiction, includes not, by the common law, either Wales, Scotland, or Ireland, or any other part of the king's dominions, except the territory of England only. And yet the civil laws and local customs of this territory do now obtain, in part or in all, with more or less restrictions, in these and many other adjacent countries; of which it will be proper first to take a review, before we consider the kingdom of England itself, the original and proper subject of these laws. This section is mainly historical. As to Wales.?The country remained practically independent until the reign of Edward the First. Their laws, however, for some time remained distinct and peculiar, and not until 27 Henry VIII. were the Welsh admitted to a thorough communication of laws with the subjects of England. As to Scotland.?The union of crowns took place on the accession of King James VI. Still for over a century she remained a separate and distinct kingdom. As both kingdoms were anciently under the same government there was considerable resemblance in their laws. The union was completed in 1707, when twenty-five articles of union were agreed to by both nations. By these articles the laws of trade, customs and excise were made the same. All other laws of Scotland remained in force, though alterable by the parliament of Great Britain. As to Ireland.?England and Ireland are (in time of B.) distinct kingdoms, although the latter is subordinate to the former. In general they agree in their laws. At the time of Ireland's conquest in the reign of Henry II. they were governed by what was called the Brehon law. King John afterwards carried the English law into Ire...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459024496 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459024494 |
| Weight | 1.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 In |
| List Price | $31.64 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 494 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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