Tucker's Blackstone: Of Courts Ecclesiastical, Military, and Maritime

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Of Courts Ecclesiastical, Military, and MaritimeBlackstone's NOTES (Tucker's notes not yet added)
   1. Celeberrimo huic conventui episcopus et aldermannus intersunto; quorum alter jura divina, alter humana populum edoceto. LL. Eadgar. c. 5.
   2. Decret. caus. 11. qu. 1. c. 41.
   3. Ibid.
   4. Hale. Hist. C. L. 102. Selden. in. Eadm. p. 6. l. 24. 4. Inst. 259. Wilk. LL. Angl. Sax. 292.
   5. Nullus episcopus vel archidiaconus de legibus episcopolibus amplius in hundret placita teneant, nec causam quae ad reglmen animarum pertinet ad judicium secularium hominum adducant: sed quicunque secondum episcopales leges de quacunque causa vel culpa interpellatus fuerit, ad locum quem ad hoc episcopus elegerit et nominaverit, veniat; ibique de causa sua respondeat; et non secondum hundret, sed secundam canones et episcopales leges, rectum Deo et episcopo suo faciat.
   6. Volo et praecipio, ut omnes de comitatu eant ad comitatus et hundreda, sicut fecerint tempore regis Edwardi. (Cort. Hen. l. in Spelm. cod. vet. Legum: 305.) And what is here obscurely hinted at, is fully explained by his code of laws extant in the red book of the exchequer, though in general but of doubtful authority. cap. 8. Generalia comitatuum placita certis locis et vicibus teneantur. Intersint autem episcopi, comites, &c; et agantur primo debita verae Christianitatis jura, secondo regis placita, postremo causae singulorum dignis satisfactionibus expleantur.
   7. 2 Inst. 70.
   8. Ne episcopi saecularium placitorum officium suscipiant. Spelm. Cod. 301.
   9. Ibid. 310.
   10. See vol. I. introd. § 1.
   11. For farther particulars see Burn's ecclesiastical law, Wood's institute of the common law, and Oughton's ordo judiciorum.
   12. Book II. ch. 32.
   13. Cod. vet. leg. 315.
   14. chap. 8.
   15. 4 Inst. 341.
   16. Ibid.
   17. 4 Inst. 324.
   18. 1 Lev. 230. Show Parl. Cas. 60.
   19. 4 Inst. 125.
   20. 7 Mod. 127.
   21. Gloss 13.
   22. Arciden. 41.
   23. See the sentiments of the president Montesquieu, and M. Vattel (a subject of the king of Prussia) on the answer transmitted by the English court to his Prussian majesty's Exposition des motifs etc. A. D. 1753. (Montesquieu's letters. 5 Mar. 1753. Vattel's droit de gent. L. 2. c. 7. § 84.)