 | Great Britain. Courts - 1883 - 650 σελίδες
...other potentate on earth. VOL. IV., NS Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against tbe King even in civil matters, because no court can have...authority to redress, and the sentence of a court should be contemptible unless the court had power to command the execution of it But who shall command... | |
 | 1880 - 972 σελίδες
...Blackstone (bk. 1, c. 7)," owes no kind of subjection to any other potentate on earth. Hence it is that no suit or action can be brought against the...jurisdiction implies superiority of power. Authority [Ci. OF APP. to try would be vain and idle without an authority to redress, and the sentence of a court... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1955 - 114 σελίδες
...disputes to arbitration ((1949) Col. LR 49:97, 101). This assumption stems from the ancient proposition that: "* * * [N]o suit or action can be brought against...matters, because no court- can have jurisdiction over him * * *" (1 Cooley's Blackstone 212). Cooley cites American precedents including Gibbons v. US ((1868)... | |
 | 1911 - 432 σελίδες
...both from civil suit and from penal proceeding rests on another subordinate reason also, namely, that no Court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power, and proceeds from the Crown itself. But who, says Finch, shall command the King ?"' The true and real... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry - 1985 - 740 σελίδες
...2:458, adds "own." 59. In Dallas, 2:458, "objection." any other Potentate upon Earth. Hence it is, that no Suit or Action can be brought against the...For all Jurisdiction implies Superiority of Power. This last Position is only a Branch of a much more extensive Principle, on which a Plan of Systematic... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 σελίδες
...matters, becaufe no court can have jurifdiction over him. For all jurifdiction implies fuperiority of power : authority to try would be vain and idle, without an authority to redrefs ; and the fentence of a court would be contemptible, unlefs that court had power to command... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 748 σελίδες
...question, okay? Senator SESSIONS. Senator Schumer, on that subject, Blackstone's Commentaries says that "no suit or action can be brought against the...because no court can have jurisdiction over him." Then it goes on, "For the same reason, no action lies under a Republican form of Government against... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 168 σελίδες
...•242 ("[T]he law ascribes to the king the attribute of sovereignty, or pre-eminence. ... Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the...because no court can have jurisdiction over him.") (Emphasis in original). lt is this immunity from law suits that protects the tax dollars paid into... | |
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Hence it is, that no suit or action can be brought against the king, even in civil matters, because no court can have jurisdiction over him. For all jurisdiction implies superiority of power... 
