 The queen reigns in her own right, holding the crown both by inheritance and election. Her legal title rests on the statute of 12 & 13 Will. III. c. 3, by which the succession to the crown of Great Britain and Ireland was settled, on the death of King...  The Statesman's Year-book - Página 196editado por - 1906Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1821 - 328 páginas
...and parliament extended the settlement of the crown to the protestant line of king James I. viz. to the princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants : and she is now the common stock from whom the heirs of the crown must descend. CHAPTER... | |
 | Thomas Wood - 1825 - 440 páginas
...limiting the succession of the crown, after the demise of that monarch, and Queen Anne (without issue) to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. Thus, through the bounty of Heaven, we received King William's blessed legacy. God's own... | |
 | Richard Preston - 1827 - 584 páginas
...body tenants of the manor of Dale. Of this description is the entail of the Crown of England, viz. to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants. This is in legal effect an estate-tail, qualified as to the character of the persons who... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 páginas
...the Parliament extended the settlement of the crown to the protestant line of king James I. viz. to the princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants: and she is now the common stock, from whom the heirs of the crown must descend. . . ....... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 páginas
...the Crown, which for better securing the rights and liberties of the subject is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestant." Blackstpne was doubtless well aware of the existence of this oath, when he stated that... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 páginas
...succession of the crown of England, after the demise of William III. and of queen Anne (without issue), to the princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants, she being the grand-daughter of James I. George I. the son of Ernest Augustus, duke of... | |
 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey - 1842 - 218 páginas
...IN ENGLAND. The Crown. BY the 12 & 13 Will. III. c. 2, s. 2, which limited the crown of England to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants, it was enacted, that "all and every person or persons, who should or might take or inherit... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1843 - 462 páginas
...of union may be thus enumerated : the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom was secured to the Princess Sophia of Hanover and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; there was to be one parliament for the United Kingdom, to constitute which sixteen peers... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 páginas
...protestant heirs to Charles I., the settlement was extended to the prolestant tine of James I., viz. to the princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being prolestanls. The present reigning family is descended from the princess Sophia, and holds the throne... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 páginas
...protestant heirs to Charles I., the settlement was extended to the protestant line of James I., viz. to the princess Sophia of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being protestants. The present reigning family is descended from the princess Sophia, and holds the throne... | |
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