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Show E 95 } [94] matz'on of fuch Acts afterwards, at diffe- ture itfelf (which has certainly a better right to determine What {hall be ef'ceemed Law in Ireland than any of the inferior Courts) has ‘pofitively declared, by the exprefs Acts of the 19th of Edward H. and the 29th of Henry VI. before cited, that Engli/l: Statutes {hall not be of force rent periods, clearly proves the irregulari- in Ireland, unlefs allowed by the Inf/I2 ty of fuch premature proceedings in the Courts, and that the higheft Court of that Kingdom, the Court of Parliament, Parliament! And agreeable to this is the Declaration of the Irif'n Houfe of Com- rmce to the general Liberties of Ireland, have followed the directions of fome mere Englifl) Aéts of Parliament, as ef'teeming them wholefome regulations of Juf'tice, proper to be adopted for the determination ofthe Cafes before them, yet the Con/ir- did not efleem the Erzglzfl) Acts ry‘fizfident lrgal Autbarz'ty till confirmed by themfelves ; for, otherwife, the Con/ir- mons in 1641, Article the firf‘t: That " the Subjects of this his Maj-efty's King- (( dom of Ireland are a free people, and " to be governed only according to the (I matz'm would have been zmneceflary, common Law of Eng/curd, and Statutes fince the Aé'rs (if Serjeant Mayart's examples are admitted) were already received into ufe; and, therefore, all fuch Court-Precedents, as are cited by the " made and el'tablithed by Parliament in " this Kingdome of Ireland, and ac- " cording to the lawful Cuf'tomes ufed in " the fame." p. 133.. learned Serjeant, are clearly Precedents of Irregularities and not of Law; f0 that they are not intitled to any confidera- tion at all ; efpecially as the Irith LegiflaI‘IJI'C Now, though the Conviction by thefe weighty Authorities will probably deflroy the credit of SerjeantMayart, as a wrirer, |
