...fliall be void. And, by the bill of rights at the revolution, I W. & M. ft. 2. c. 2. it is declared, that all grants and promifes of fines and forfeitures of particular perfons before conviction (which is here the inqueft of office) are illegal and void ; which indeed was the law of...

...fhall be void. And, by the bill of rights at the revolution, i W. & M. ft. 2. c. 2. it is declared, that all grants and promifes of fines and forfeitures of particular perfons before conviction (which is here the inqueft of office) are illegal and void ; which indeed was the law of...

...freeholders. That all grants and promifes of fines and forfeitures of particular pcrfons before conviction are illegal and void. And that for redrefs of all grievances, and for the amending, ftrengthening and preserving of the laws, parliaments ought to be held frequently. And they do CLAIM,...

...confidered parts of that fundamental law, the declaration of rights, which declares, " that all grants of fines and forfeitures of particular perfons, before conviftion, are illegal and void." This provifion is exprelsly made, left rapacious miniflers, fcentingconfifcation, or rapacious loldiers,...

...Execution of them by regal Authority, as it had been then late a/umed and exercifed, was illegal ; and that all Grants and Promifes of Fines and Forfeitures of particular Perfons bejore Conviction were illegal and void. And it was alfo declared and enasted, 'That no Difpenfation...

...freeholder«. That all grants and promifes of fines. and forfeitures of particular perlons before conviction, are illegal and void. And that, for redrefs of all grievances, and for the amending, ilrengthening and preferving of the law;, parliaments ought to be held frequently." Tbeje are the rights...