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. 1867 Excerpt: ...affured we must do. But to raise up laws by prattice and custom had been no transgression; as in our church discipline," &c. (tVinthrop, i. 323.) The "Body of Liberties," adopted December, 1641, was so framed as, if possible, to avoid this difficulty. They were " expressed only under the name and title of Liberties, ...
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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. 1867 Excerpt: ...affured we must do. But to raise up laws by prattice and custom had been no transgression; as in our church discipline," &c. (tVinthrop, i. 323.) The "Body of Liberties," adopted December, 1641, was so framed as, if possible, to avoid this difficulty. They were " expressed only under the name and title of Liberties, and not in the exact form of Laws or Statutes," and the General Court did not enafl them, but " with one consent sully authorize and earnestly entreat all that are and shall be in authority to consider them as laws," and not to fail to inflict punishment for every violation of them.--Lib. 96; 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 236. At a later period, when the ascendency of the parliament was established, and Massachusetts was for the time relieved from apprehension of the lofs of her charter, the General Court denied, with less reserve, the authority of the laws of England. They " did ever honor the parliament, and were ready to perform all due There are besides foure quarter Courts for the whole Jurisdiction, besides other petie Courts, one every quarter, at Boston, Salem, and Ipswich, with their severall jurisdictions, besides every towne, almost, hath a petie Court for small debts, and trespasses under twenty sliillings. In the generall Court, or great quarter Courts, before n', nd the Civill Magistrates, are tryed-1 all actions and causes 26 civill and criminall, and also Ecclesiasticall, especially touching non-members: 88And they themselves fay, that, in the generall and quarter Courts, they have the power--v of Parliament, Kings Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery, High Commission, and Star-chamber, and all other Courts of England, and in divers cases have exercised that power upon the Kings Subjects there, a...
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