The Archduke Ferdinand himself doubted the legality of these proceedings; but the King was rigorous in the enforcement of his plans, and he wrote to his son suggesting further means of torture.
He had never admitted the legality of his deposition from the Imperial throne; and, since only a part of the Electors had sanctioned that step, he had plausible grounds for disputing its validity.
The formulae of Domesday are the most speaking witness to the spirit of outward legality which ruled every act of William.
But in our view of William as an English statesman, the main feature of all is that spirit of formal legality of which we have so often spoken.
Its main principle was to respect formal legality wherever he could.
It is a thing in imagination, the propriety of which is more than doubted, and the legality of which in a few years will be denied.
A minority, always growing smaller, of the Free Church Assembly, protested against the proposed union, and threatened if it were carried through to test its legality in the courts.
Probably the same objection lies against the legality of the juries in some other states.
The effect and legality of this oath will hereafter be considered.
Of course, there can be no legality in such juries as these; but only in juries to which every free or natural born adult male Englishman is eligible.
History, however, shows that this edict was forged to give the stamp of legality to the results of a long political struggle.
Whether Steele took any steps to test the legality of this treatment is doubtful; but, on the accession of his friend Walpole to office, he was restored to his position at the head of the theatre.
In my opinion, legalityfor legality, the southern government has a bare shade the better of the technical argument.
Its attack upon the legality of the Peking government is doubtless technically justified.
The legality of these orders the United States contested.
Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
The laws of the colonies offered few obstacles to the legality of their union; and when Ludlow appeared that morning, he firmly believed that he beheld one, who, if he were not so already, was inevitably soon to become his nephew.
This is a way that God, nor any child of his, need be ashamed of before any that shall call in question the legality and justice of this procedure.
Upon the admission of the State, Lane succeeded in having himself elected Senator, but the legality of the proceeding was questioned and this called for more activity to keep himself at the front.
He was to examine into the legality of all organizations of troops serving in the Department, and deal with those unauthorized in a similar summary way.
For the betrothal, at which rings were exchanged and mutual contracts were signed, made more than half the legality of marriage, to be completed on a separate occasion by the nuptial benediction.
But in this stage of the business, the friends of the accused resisted the appeal, determined chiefly by the wish to gain delay; and, in fact, strict legality required that sentence should have been passed prior to the appeal.
If their concurrence was necessary to give existence or legality to the Treaty, he saw not why they ought not to be favored with the papers as well as the Senate.
He was positive as to the legality and expediency of proceeding.
Like the gentleman who had just sat down, he felt many doubts as to the legality of such an act of bounty; and he wished, before he gave a vote on either side of the question, to free himself from these doubts.
If he judged it for the advantage of the United States to bring this money, in the first place, to America, the legality of such a measure cannot be questioned, though the economy and wisdom of it may not be admitted.
It was the confession of their own inability to encounter Jehovah in that awful aspect which their proud legality had led Him to assume.
Has it ceased to be a tempting of God to place the yoke of legality upon a sinner's neck?
And it is quite certain that the narrators of the Gadarene story do not, in any way, refer to the point of morality and legality thus raised; as I said, they show no inkling of the moral and legal difficulties which arise.
The publican was in fact very much in the position of an Irish process-server at the present day--more, rather than less, despised and hated on account of the perfect legality of his occupation.
The Petition neither affirms nor denies the legality of martial law in time of war; although its advocates were agreed that at such a time martial law would be applicable to soldiers.
The true ground for objecting to the legality of the purchase by Turkey of the German warships which have been forced to take refuge in her waters is no doubt that stated by Sir William Scott in the Minerva, 6 C.
The story of these abortive conferences, however interesting historically, appears to me to have no bearing upon the legality of martial law, and I have no intention of returning to the subject.
The members of the Scotish church, however, questioned the legality of special distinction, and maintained that the grant either of money or power to one body, simultaneously quickened a title in the other to similar privileges.
Many, favorable to the object, doubted the legality of the meeting, and the power of any officer to proclaim the assembling of a body not recognised by the legislative council.
It was not worth while to enquire whether the view of the judges of the legality of the act in the case of Symons v.
Not that British officers were really more scrupulous, or offered by their habits a better guarantee for the legality of their administration.
Against the legality of this meeting, the managers and several of the congregation offered an unavailing protest.
An unfettered despotism drew no distinction, but rejected all questions of legality as contumacious.
