It was the intention of the commons, as appears by the preamble of this statute, and more fully by their petition in Rot.
They are not even named in the preambleof any statute till the last year of Edward I.
The Preamble in combination with the first Article of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties was adopted as the Preamble to the Connecticut Code of 1650.
Preamble to the Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony, 1641: Coll.
In conformity with these views, Mr. Chairman, and in the hope of presenting a proposition on which the Convention may unite, I propose to strike out all after the preamble and insert two resolutions, as follows.
As his work, it all claims our regard; and no part bears the imprint of his mind so much as the Preamble and Bill of Rights; nor is any other part authenticated as coming so exclusively from him.
Such was thePreamble to the "Body of Liberties" of the Massachusetts Colony in 1641.
It is not difficult to trace most, if not all, of the ideas and provisions of ourPreamble and Declaration of Rights to their primitive sources.
Mr. Chairman,--As Chairman of the Committee on the Preamble and Bill of Rights, it is my duty to introduce and explain their Report.
The order quoted in the long lawyer's preamble at the beginning of this story had, however, put him in possession of two tracts of forest, and of an estate which had considerably increased in value during its sequestration.
Madame," said the lawyer, "the preamble briefly sets forth the position in which you stand to each other.
The King considers it expedient that More and Fisher be compelled to swear to the preamble of the Act of Succession as well as to the Act itself: otherwise it might be taken as a confirmation of the authority of the Bishop of Rome.
In this particular it was perhaps legitimate, but at the same time it opened the way to a great number of abuses, which are stated at length in the preamble to the statute just mentioned.
This curious bit of characterization forms thepreamble to a vast scheme, consisting of no less than eighty-eight clauses, looking to the "transformation of the Jews.
This appears by the preamble to the English Act of the 7th and 8th W.
By the preamble of one of those Acts,[374] made in the reign of Charles II.
The preamble recites, "the extreme necessity to which the poor of this kingdom had been too frequently reduced for want of provisions.
They brought in a law for the encouragement of tillage, which was ineffectual (see post 42); but the preamble of that Act is a legislative proof of the unhappy condition of the poor of this country before that time.
England was, in 1698, in possession of the woollen trade in most of the foreign markets, and expected still to continue to supply them, as appears by the preamble of her Statute passed in that year.
But the preamble of the English Act of the 10th and 11th of William III.
But the delegates were determined to express the idea in some form; and this led to the words in the preamble of the British North America Act declaring 'a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom.
Thus it is expressed in the preamble to the constitution: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, .
A Preamble and Resolution similar to the preceding were likewise adopted by the Senate.
Law) Defn: Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.
Defn: To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble.
It must also be noted that there are at least two allusions to the Wife of Bath's Preamble in the course of Group E; namely, in the Clerk's Tale, l.
At the end of the Wife of Bath's Preamble is narrated a verbal quarrel between the Sompnour and the Friar, in which the former promises to tell some strange tales about friars before the company shall arrive at Sittingbourne.
Constitution from beginning to end, from its opening Preamble to its final Amendment, and then the joyful opinion would be given.
The Preamble and the record are important, disclosing the real intention.
Thus the language of the preamble is justified, and the Convention is in compliance with both the second and fifth articles of the original Convention.
On the evening of * John Adams, Edward Rutledge, and Richard Henry Lee were appointed a committee to prepare a preamble to this resolution.
The convention prefixed Jefferson's preamble to it, which, in a great degree, resembles the Declaration of Independence.
The preambleasserted that "The Sons of Liberty would withstand the Lords in Parliament," and it set forth that evils of great magnitude existed.
They were instructed to carry out the principles embodied in the preamble and resolutions adopted by the convention, the substance of which is given in the text.
No doubt," Peckover agreed, getting impatient of the preamble and anxious to come to the gist of the offer.
But I fear the politeness with which your graces have brought yourselves to listen to my long preamble has caused your cigars to extinguish themselves," remarked the duke, with an ambassadorial smile.
Scarcely had Quorn time to pull himself together in his overmastering admiration, and frame thepreamble of a rough flirtation, when Peckover came rushing back with apprehensive face.
On the adoption of the preamble and second resolution, two voted in the negative and five in the affirmative, for the first and third resolutions the vote was unanimous, so the report and resolutions were adopted.
We take the liberty to add, that, in our opinion, the reasons assigned by the Trustees in the preamble before mentioned for not accepting the act of June, are very important and amply sufficient.
I will not, however, detain the reader with this preamble of great deeds, for it has little to do with the principal object of this history.
After this preamble Xicotencatl brought various other accusations against Motecusuma and his allies.
This sharp and timely admonition was thepreamble of a motion.
Thereupon he took a pencil and roughly drafted the preamble of a cablegram.
The preamble or first part (which is not always used) follows in general a fixed form, but to the composing of resolutions applies all that was said of the writing of petitions.
The meaning of "We, the People of the United States," in the Preambleto the Constitution.
Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World.
