THE HISTORY OF THE CASE S OF Controverted Elections, WHICH WERE TRIED AND DETERMINED During the First and Second Seffions of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, 15 & 16 GEO. III. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SYLVESTER DOUGLAS, LORD GLEN BERVI E. Mais fi les tribunaux ne doivent pas être fixes, les jugemens doivent l'être a un tel point, qu'ils ne foient jamais qu'un texte précis de la loi. S'ils étoient une opinion particuliere du juge, on vivroit dans la focieté fans fçavoir précifément les engagemens que l'on y contracte.-L'Esprit des Loix, liv. xi. c. 6. Quod neque inflecti gratiâ, neque perfringi potentiâ, neque adulterari pecuniâ poffit.-Cic. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. Second Edition, with Corrections and Additions. LONDON: Printed by Luke Hanfard, For E. & R. BROOKE and J. RIDE R, Bell-Yard, Temple Bar, and JOHN STOCKDALE, Piccadilly. 1802. |