A Legal Argument on the Statute (1st William and Mary, Chapter 18) Intituled, "An ACT for E.. details from bookadda

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. 1812. Excerpt: ... ing them to be taken? If such enquiries and discussions had been admitted, the cessation of all pleas and proceedings in the Court of King's Bench would not be temporary, but eternal; and the Committee of the House of Commons would throw away their labor in investigating any farther the causes of the delay complained of in the Court of Chancery. But the officers do not come.to prove their title to offices; they come to protect themselves from penalties, to which they believe they should otherwise be exposed, but which they may avert by taking those oaths which the law has enjoined for the general safety of the King and his government: and they would be as much astonished to be required to prove their right to take them, as if the Clergyman had insisted on legal evidence of their sustaining that particular character, in which they had taken the sacrament on the preceding Sunday. It is apprehended, that the question as to the discretion of the Magistrates on this subject, has already received a virtual decision, in the case of the King against the Justices of Derbyshire, which was brought before the Court of King's Bench, on the nineteenth section of the Toleration Act: A motion having been there made, for a mandamus to register a Meeting House, which was certified to the Quarter Sessions, as a place set apart for the meeting of Protestant Dissenters, ' Morton and Blackstone shewed for cause; 1st. That the parties certifying, have not shewn under what denomination of Protestant Dissenters they fall, so astointitle themselves to the indulgence shewn by the Toleration Act, which only meant to give ease to tender consciences, when professing such principles, as neither endanger the civil Government, nor undermine the fundamental doctrines of the Christian Reli...