Jus imponendi vectigana, or, The learning touching customs, tonnage, poundage, and impositions on merchandizes, asserted as well from the rules of the common and civil law, as of generall reason and policy of state / by Sir John Davis ...
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Jus imponendi vectigana, or, The learning touching customs, tonnage, poundage, and impositions on merchandizes, asserted as well from the rules of the common and civil law, as of generall reason and policy of state / by Sir John Davis ...
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Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
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London :: Printed for Henry Twyford ...,
MDCLIX [1659]
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Commercial law -- England.
Tariff -- England.
Taxation -- England.
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"Jus imponendi vectigana, or, The learning touching customs, tonnage, poundage, and impositions on merchandizes, asserted as well from the rules of the common and civil law, as of generall reason and policy of state / by Sir John Davis ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A37238.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
The fourth Objection, that the Prerogative is
bound or taken away by divers Acts of Par∣liament.
FOurthly, It is objected, That though
it were granted and admitted, that
the King de jure communi, hath a rightful
Prerogative to lay Impositions upon
Merchandizes, yet that power say they,
is restrained and taken away by sundry
Acts of Parliament.
First, the Statute of Magna Charta, cap.
30. doth give safe conduct and free pas∣sage
to all Merchants to buy and sell, abs∣que
aliquibus malis tolnetis per antiquas &
rectas consuctudines. Secondly, by the Act
or Charrer of confirmation in 25 Edw.
3. The King doth release a Mayltolt
of fourty shillings upon a Sack of
Wooll, and doth grant for him and His
Heirs, unto the Commons, that he shall
not take such things without the Com∣mons
consent or good will; and in the
same Act or Charter reciting, that wheras
divers people of the Realm were in fear,
that the Aids and Taxes which they had
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given to the King before that time, was
towards his War, and other businesses of
their own grant and good will, might
turn to a bondage of them and their
heirs, because in time to come they
might be found in the Rolls, and were
likewise grieved for Prizes taken
throught the Realm, The King doth
grant for him and his Heirs, That he will
not draw such Ayds, Taxes, or Prizes,
into a Custome, for any thing that had
been done before that time, be it by Roll
or any other president that may bee
found. Thirdly, by the Statute 14 Edw.
3. cap. 12. the King doth grant that all
Merchants Denizens, and Aliens, may
freely come into the Realm with their
goods and Merchandizes, and freely
tary there, and safely return, paying their
Customes, Subsidies, and profits thereof,
reasonably due. Fourthly, by the Statute
11 Rich. 2. cap. 9. it is enacted, That no
Imposition or Charge be put upō Wools,
Wooll-fells, or Leather, other than the
Custome or Subsidie granted to the King
in that Parliament, if any be, the same to
be adnulled and repealed, saving to the
King his ancient right; there are other
Acts of Parliament containing the same
sence and substance, but these principal∣ly
have been singled out, and cited as
specially Statutes restraining and taking
away the Kings Prerogative in laying
Impositions upon Merchandizes.