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 21, 2024.
The fifth Objection, that Tonnage and Pound∣age
were never taken, but when the same
was granted by Parliament.
FIftly, it is objected, That the Subsidies
of Tonnage and Poundage, were
never taken by any King of England, but
when the same were granted by Act of
Parliament, which is an Argument, say
they, that the King could never take
those duties but by his absolute power,
for if his Prerogative could have impo∣sed
those rates of it self, what need was
there of an Act of Parliament? why
should the King have expected the con∣sent
of the Commons? cum Dominus eis
opus habet, and when the Exchequor were
so empty, as the Jewells of the Crown
were layd to pawn by some of those
Kings who were glad to take these Sub∣sidies
by Acts of Parliament.