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  • The Dominions and their Mother Country

  • Courtney Kenny
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 2 / Issue 2 / July 1925
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 157-168
    Print publication:
    July 1925

  • When Blackstone, a hundred and sixty years ago, made the first modern summary of the laws of England, the constitutional relations of Great Britain to the rest of the Empire were perfectly clear and perfectly simple. The King in Parliament was supreme. “Ireland”, Blackstone writes, “is a dependent subordinate Kingdom” (I. 98); “Our American plantations are dependent dominions; they are subject to the control of the Parliament (though like Ireland … they are not bound by any Acts of Parliament unless particularly mentioned)”. In thus writing, Blackstone correctly expressed not only the legal doctrine as accepted in forensic theory by all jurists, but also the constitutional doctrine, as accepted in working practice by all statesmen.

  • Reprisals as a Measure of Redress Short of War

  • S. Maccoby
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 2 / Issue 1 / March 1924
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 60-73
    Print publication:
    March 1924

  • ‘Reprisals’ is a mediaeval term which is first met with in the thirteenth century. Lawyers, who wrote in Latin, knew it as repraesaliae or repressaliae an almost exact rendering of the French représailles and the Italian ripresaglie. They tried hard to identify the usages it represented with practices they knew in the civil law. Especially did they try to identify it with the Roman pigneratio. It was not till the early eighteenth century that the essential uniqueness of reprisals was categorically asserted by Bynkershoek in such forceful terms as “operam ludunt qui rem apud Romanos incognitam Latino vocabulo conantur exprimere.”

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