This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...to relieve the parliament of Paris from the great influx of appeals, and also to diminish the expense to suitors, who were often obliged to come from a great distance to the capital, to prosecute their suits. Such was the origin of the parliaments of Bordeaux for Aquitaiue, Dijon for Burgundy, Rennes for Brittany, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...to relieve the parliament of Paris from the great influx of appeals, and also to diminish the expense to suitors, who were often obliged to come from a great distance to the capital, to prosecute their suits. Such was the origin of the parliaments of Bordeaux for Aquitaiue, Dijon for Burgundy, Rennes for Brittany, Rouen for Normandy, Toulouse Ch. VII. DESTRUCTION OF THE PARLIAMENTS. 245 for Languedoc, Pau for Bear n and Navarre, Aix for Provence, Dole for Franche-Comte, Grenoble for Dauphiny, and Metz for Lorraine. And it is important to notice, that these were within their separate jurisdictions sovereign and independent courts, and no ordinance emanating from the crown had the force of law within a particular district, until it had been registered by its parliament; so that sometimes a single province was excepted from the operation of what was elsewhere the general law of the land. An instance of this occurred so late as 1747, when the parliament of Aix refused to register a royal edict, relating to trust estates.1 The storm of the Revolution swept away these aneient institutions; although, or perhaps because, they formed the surest guarantee for the preservation of rational liberty. Their requiem was sung by Burke in the following just and eloquent panegyric: "They composed permanent bodies politic, constituted to resist arbitrary innovation; and from that corporate constitution, and from most of their forms, they were well calculated to afford both certainty and stability to the laws. They had been a safe asylum to secure these laws in all the revolutions of humour and opinion. They had saved that sacred deposit of the country during the reigns of arbitrary princes and the struggles of arbitrary factions. They kept alive the memory and record of t...
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