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Extracts from the Case of Hall v. Campbell

No 5 pp. 211 & 212 If a King (says the book) [Coke's report of Calvin's Case] comes
to a kingdom by conquest, he may change and alter the laws
of that kingdom; but if he comes to it by title and descent,
he cannot change the laws of himself without the consent
of Parliament.* +Kep. 17.b. It is plain he alludes to his own countrys
because he alludes to a country where this a Parliament.

...... In the year 1722, the assembly of Jamaica being
refractory, it was referred to Sir Philip Yorke and Sir
Clement Wearge, to know "what could be done if the assembly
"should obstinately continue to withhold all the usual
"supplies." They reported thus: "If Jamaica was still to be
"considered as a conquered island, the king had a right to
"levy taxes on the inhabitants; but if it was to be considered
in the same light as the other colonies. no tax could be "imposed on the inhabitants by an assembly of the
island, or by an act of Parliament."

They considered the distinction in law as clear, and an
indisputable consequence of the island being in the one
state or the other....

No 6 212. A maxim of constitutional law as declared by all the
judges in Calvin's case, and which two such men in modern
times as Sir Philip Yorke and Sir ClementWearge Wearge, took
for granted, will require some authenties to shake.—

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Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	134	Info in main headings field	extracts from the case of hall v campbell
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