I should be glad so to annul it; but what is Kenelm's weak side?
He denied, for instance, that almsgiving could annulthe penalty attached to sin, and according to him the only sort of almsgiving which had any merit was that prescribed in the Gospel: "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.
One day I said that they were bound in honour to return to the obedience of their abbot, if only to annulhis sentence of excommunication.
He can by one stroke of his pen annul those laws which now press so grievously upon them and he can thus give a happy life to those Jewish subjects of his who now can hardly be said to live at all.
We pray you, then, annul those special laws and disabilities that crush and cow your Hebrew subjects.
Harper argued that only the courts could determine the validity and meaning of a law, and that no Legislature could annul a grant made by a previous one.
Concerning Marshall's assertion of the power of the National Judiciary to annul acts of Congress and to direct administrative officers in the discharge of their legal duties, Jefferson himself said nothing at the time.
Then, too, everybody knew "that one session of a Legislature cannot annul the contracts made by the preceding session"; for did not the National Constitution forbid any State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts?
Then the imperious Virginian boldly charged that the Federalists intended to have John Marshall and his associates on the Supreme Bench annul the Republican repeal of the Federalist Judiciary Act.
No words in the Constitution gave the Judiciary the power to annul legislation.
Madison, was the all-important question as to what power, if any, could annul acts of Congress.
How then could anybody pretend that a State could by legislationannul a contract?
Madison, the power of the Supreme Court to annul acts of Congress probably would not have been insisted upon thereafter.
It was decided that he should go in state to the assembly, annul its decrees, command the separation of the orders as constitutive of the monarchy, and himself fix the reforms to be effected by the states-general.
The court, so far from wishing to organize the states-general, sought to annul them.
A few conventionalists, headed by Tallien, proposed to annul the elections of this third, and wished to suspend, for a longer time, the conventional government.
To-morrow the question of confirming the election or not comes up in the Chamber; and if Monsieur de Sallenauve is not here by that time, the ministry expects to annul it.
Annul hic et nunc the election of Monsieur de Sallenauve, and send him back to the voters by whom he was elected and of whom he is so unfaithful a representative.
The defenders of the papal power maintained, moreover, that the pope was the supreme legislator, that he might change or annul the act of any council or of a previous pope, that he might judge others but might not himself be judged by any one.
No one may annul a decree of the pope, though the pope may declare null and void the decrees of all other earthly powers; and no one may pass judgment upon his acts.
When the Assembly, in the first paroxysms of its delirium, dared to annul its oaths and declared itself freed from the yoke of the instructions which we received from our constituents, the king had a right--what do I say?
It is this doubt that humiliates and alarms me, for the emperor would regard the least hesitation as fresh ingratitude, and perhaps would annul his pardon.
The Pope could annul such a marriage as yours by a stroke of the pen if he wished.
An English court will annul Irish Acts; English revenue officers will collect Irish customs, and every penny of the Irish customs will pass into the English Exchequer.
Pennsylvania, after asserting a power over fugitive slaves which is controverted, has proceeded to annul a large number of statutes in different States.
If it pass laws hostile to slavery, will you annul them, and substitute laws favoring slavery in their stead?
He dissented altogether from the doctrine of the Senator from Illinois, that by non-action, or unfriendly legislation a Territory couldannul a decision of the Supreme Court and exclude slavery.
To the free-State men he would not accord any inherent, sovereign right to annul the laws and resist the authority of the territorial government.
Tell me not of your engagements and promises to another: your promises were sins of inconsideration, at best; and you are bound to repent and annul them.
For men can differ only in the presence of identical objects which virtually annul their difference.
Because their compliance with it would, in effect, annul their resolution contained in the declaration of their independence, viz.
Likewise a former oath may annul a subsequent oath under certain conditions.
To defame therefore is to lessen or to annul the estimation in which a person is held by his fellow-men.
The English once more repeated their old demand, that Mary should even now ratify the treaty of Edinburgh, and annul all that had been done in violation of it by her first husband or by herself.
And even without this King John had already armed, to annul by force of arms all that he had promised.
Might he not annul unjust sentences of excommunication?
Then, can the father and mother annul the relation which exists between themselves, the parents of the child?
Can the father annul the relation which exists between himself and his child?
If it can annul a man's right to himself, held by express grant from his Maker, and can create for another an artificial title to him, can it not annul the artificial title, and leave the original owner to hold himself by his original title?
They had in substance done this, they refused to annul the apprenticeship themselves, it is true, but said, we will place them in a situation that will compel them to do it themselves.
If it can annul a man's right to himself, held by express grant from his Maker, and can create for another an artificial title to him, can it not annul the artificial title, and leave the original owner to hold himself by his original title?
