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Aboriginal people, 9, 275–293. See also First Nations people

Act Against Clandestine Mortgages 1692, 151

Act for Registration of Deeds (Ireland) 1707, 152–153

Act for Rendering Securities More Effectual 1772, 158–159, 161

Act for the More Easy Redemption and Foreclosure of Mortgages 1734, 157

Act in Restraint of Appeals 1532, 90

Act of 1450 (Statuta super quibus Consilium avisabitur sequuntur), 61

Act of 1592 (Concerning the Relevancy of Libels in Causes Criminal), 52–57, 61–62

Act of Union 1707, 4, 96, 99, 105–121

Article I, 105–106

Article II, 105

Article III, 105

Article XIX, 106, 110–113, 115, 121

Article XVIII, 100–105, 110, 115, 117, 121

Article XXII, 107–108

and British common law, 108–117

and British parliament, 106–108

and debates regarding English and Scottish law, 99–101

and lack of unified court system, 110–117

and partial unifying of British public law, 105–108

place of Scottish courts in, 111–115

and preservation of legal pluralism, 103–104

and preservation of Scottish law, 110

and royal prerogative power, 108–109

and Scottish private law, 102–104

Act of Union 1800, 6, 100, 117, 177, 185–186, 196, 242–243, 310, 318, 326, 328, 331, 336

Act to Prevent Frauds by Clandestine Mortgages 1697, 151

The American Commonwealth (Bryce), 210

An Act for Keeping Safely the Public Records 1838, 311

Anderson LCJ, 83

Andrews LJ, 188, 192–193

Anglo-Irish Treaty

Article 11, 198

Article 12, 198–199, 201, 212–214

and Birkenhead’s Bulgarian precedent, 212–215

constitutional considerations, 208–211

Irish border issues, 7, 200–201, 214, 228

Legal Advisory Committee, 205–206

O’Bryne’s contributions, 205–208, 211–212

Anglo-Norman invasion, 1, 324

Annesley v. Sherlock, 165

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 88

Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance (James I), 83

The Apotheosis of King James I (Rubens), 81

‘archival turn’, 2, 340

art and part, doctrine of, 3, 44–62

and the Act of 1592 (Concerning the Relevancy of Libels in Causes Criminal), 52–57, 60

before the Justiciary Court, 57–58

and English legal authorities, 51

and legal treatises, 52

prosecution based on, 58–59

use of exceptions in, 59–61

Articles of Agreement for a Treaty signed between Great Britain and Ireland, 216–236

Asgill, John, 152–153

Ashby v. White, 127

Aston J, 133

Australia

claims of sovereignty and, 278–283

and constitutional recognition of First Nations people, 288–290, 292–293

evolution of rule of law in, 278–288

and the First Nations Voice proposal, 276, 291–293

Mason-Brennan era in High Court, 277

rule of law history, 275–278

Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017), 290–292

Australian Communist Party v. Commonwealth (1950), 276

Axa General Insurance v. Lord Advocate, 120

Babington, Sir Anthony, 242

Babington, William, 23

Bacon, Francis

and Case of Commendams, 84, 86

and Commission on Union, 91

History of the Reign of King Henry VII, 95

on the law of nature, 93

New Atlantis, 87

and outer empire, 90

and Proclamation on the Post-Nati, 92

on Statute of Uses, 39, 43

Bagehot, Walter, 94

Balfour, Arthur, 213–214

Balfour’s Practicks, 51, 56

Ball, F. Elrington, 183, 325

Ballymagauran Dairy Society v. Cavan CC, 191

Banks, Sir Joseph, 279

Barnard’s Act 1734, 157

Barton, Robert, 202, 210

Basilicon Doron (James I), 83–84, 87

Bate’s Case, 77

Beart, Benjamin, 132

Belfast & County Down Railway, 240

Bermingham Tower (Dublin Castle), 320

Berry, Henry F., 315, 317–318

Bewley, Charles, 206

Bill for Quieting Corporations 1743, 140, 142

Bill of Rights Bill, 9, 303–305

Bingham, Lord, 298

Birkenhead, Lord, 7, 199–202, 205, 209–210

Bulgarian precedent, 212–215

Blackstone, Sir William, 137, 278, 280–281, 296

Blythe, Ernest, 221, 235

Boateng, Paul, 298

Bodkin, Thomas, 197

Boer War, 211

Boggan v. Motor Union Insurance Co, 192

Boland, Harry, 227

Bonham’s Case, 85–86, 91

Boundary Commission (Irish), 7, 201, 204, 206, 209–212, 214–215, 239

Bracton. See De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae

Bramston CJ, 76

Brennan J, 281–282

Brewer, J. S., 319

Brexit, 7, 96–97, 198, 215, 238, 253, 302

Bringing Rights Home (1996), 298

British North America Act 1867, 296

British public law

partial unifying of, 105–108

unifying of, 101–105

British Railways, 241

British Transport Corporation, 242

Brittain, Sir Herbert, 249

Brooke, Sir Basil, 241–242

Brookeborough, Lord, 251–253

Bryce, Lord, 210

Buckland, Patrick, 242, 251

Burke, John Bernard, 328

Burton J, 285

Butler, Edmund, 324

Butler, R. A., 248

Caldwell, James, 147–150, 160–161

Calvin’s Case, 93

Campbell and Cosans, 297, 304

Campbell, Sir James, 183–184, 191

Carson, Edward, 183

Carter, Sir John, 138

Case of Commendams, 84, 86, 91

Case of Proclamations, 85, 90, 108

Case of Prohibitions, 84

Casement, Roger, 201

Catholic Relief Act 1793, 6, 162, 178, 180

Catlyn, Sir Robert, 69–73

Cavendish Transcripts, 327

Cecil, William, 69

certiorari, 4, 68, 73, 75–76, 78

cestui qui use, 27–28, 36–38

Chalmondley, Lord, 145

Chaloner, 11–21

prosecution difficulties, 22–25

Chamberlain, Austen, 199, 203–204, 208–210, 212, 215, 219, 223, 225, 234, 236

Chapuys, Eustace, 34–35

Charles II, 94, 112

Charles III, 94

Charter of Fundamental Rights (Canada), 299

Chartres, John Smith, 202–204, 210

Chaworth, 24–25

Chesterfield, Lord, 141

Chief Secretary Office Registered Papers (CSORP), 332

Chief Secretary’s Office (CSO), 325–326, 328–335

Childers, Erskine, 202–204, 211

Cholmondeley, Lord, 141

Christmas-peace government (Estonia), 261

Churchill, Winston, 95, 204, 214, 228

Civil Code of the ESSR of 1965, 259

Civil Service Act (Estonia), 267

Civil War in Ireland (1922–23), 1, 7, 201, 221, 239, 308

Clarke, Peter, 125

Clear, James, 131

Clerk, Sir John, 112, 118

Cleverly, James, 305

Clifford, Lady Anne, 87

coalition government, 213, 218, 220, 229, 243, 260

Cocksedge, Henry, 125–126

Coke, Sir Edward, 64, 67, 69–70, 74–78, 93, 296

disputes with James I, 84–86

Collins, Michael, 7, 195, 201, 203, 207, 210–211, 215, 217–219, 221, 225–227, 229–231, 233–235

Collins–de Valera pact, 218, 224, 231, 233

Colonial Debts Act 1732, 157, 159

colonisation, in Australia, 283–288

Commentaries (Plowden), 67

Commercial Code (Estonia), 261

Commission on Union, 91

common law

and Act of Union 1707, 105–121

and the Anglo-Norman invasion, 1, 324

and claims of sovereignty in Australia, 278–283

and devise of land by last will, 28

and human rights, 305

and husband-killing, 12, 19, 21, 25–26

and legal title to use, 36

and mortgages, 150

and privacy, 297

procedures of, 12, 25, 55

and quo warranto, 5, 126, 132

and royal prerogative power, 4, 63, 67, 84–86, 143–144

unified British, 101, 120

Common Travel Area, 238

Compton, Sir Edmund, 247, 249, 252, 255

Coneys v. Morris, 192

Conservative Party, 219, 252, 301–302

Conservative Party (Australia), 289

Constitution of 1782, 6, 163–168

and changes to Irish House of Lords, 170–171

and changes to Irish parliament, 169–171

and the Dublin Paving Board, 176–178

and infrastructure acts, 175–176

as a limited constitutional change, 178–180

and linen laws, 175

and subsequent legislation, 172–178

symbolic importance of, 179–180

and Turnpike Acts, 175–176

and the ‘two p’s’ test, 169–170

Constitution of Estonia 1992, 256, 259

Constitution of Switzerland, 218

Constitution of the Irish Free State (1922)

British negotiation strategy, 222–224

British proposals for settlement, 227–228

British rejection of draft, 219

and the Collins–de Valera pact, 218, 224, 231, 233–234

confidential preview of, 225–227

and the Constitution of Switzerland, 218

and Dominion precedent, 7, 209, 211–212, 216–218, 220, 222–223, 226–227, 230–231, 233–236

draft Constitution process, 217–219

and extern ministers, 218, 221, 229

and Irish Provisional Government Treaty settlement, 229–231

and the Irish Provisional Government, 220–222

Irish–British negotiations. See Articles of Agreement for Treaty signed between Great Britain and Ireland

negotiation of, 216–217

Repugnancy Clause, 224, 232

resumption of British–Irish negotiations, 231–233

synthesis approach, 220, 222–223, 225–226

constitutional change, 163–164. See also Constitution of 1782

definitions of, 168–170

limited evidence of in Constitution of 1782, 178–180

and subsequent legislation, 172–179

as treason, 3

Constitutional Reform Act 2005

Section 41(1), 114

Section 41(2), 114–116

Cook, James, 279

Cooper v. General Accident Assurance Corporation, 191

Cooper v. Stuart, 279–280

Cooper, Lord, 47–49

Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), 238, 251, 253

Corporation Act 1661, 123, 139

Corporation for Promoting and Carrying on an Inland Navigation in Ireland 1751, 176

Cosgrave, Liam, 239

Council of Ireland, 187, 239

Council of Six of Nottingham, 123

Court of Appeal in Ireland, 6, 188, 190

Court of Appeal in Southern Ireland, 188–190, 192, 194

Court of Chancery, 127, 312, 316–317

Court of Common Pleas, 31, 41, 66, 70–71, 84–85, 313, 315

Court of Common Pleas (PROI CCP), 313

Court of Exchequer, 77

Court of King’s Bench

and judicial review, 4, 66, 70–78

and quo warranto, 123, 128–131, 133, 136–137, 139–141, 144–145

and royal prerogative power, 86

on treason, 15

Court of Queen’s Bench, 122, 126–127, 146

Court of Requests, 67, 72

Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, 120

Cowell, James, 82

Craig, Robert, 60

Craig, Sir James, 6, 184, 189, 200, 214, 239

Craig, Thomas, 58

Crewe, Sir Randall, 78

Criminal Code of the ESSR of 1961, 259

Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887, 113

Cromwell, Thomas, 30, 32, 34–35, 37–38, 42, 70

Crooks, Peter, 2

Curthoys, Ann, 280

Curtis, Lionel, 211, 214

Customer Smyth’s Case, 77

D’Israeli, Isaac, 88

Dacre’s Case, 29–30, 41–43

and the Statute of Uses, 35–38

Daemonology (James I), 83–84

Dail debates, 7, 243

Dáil Éireann, 201–202, 205–208, 212, 216, 221, 227, 243–244, 250

Davies, Crompton Llewelyn, 207

Dawes, Nathaniel, 141

de facto officer doctrine, 138

De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, 50–52, 65, 85

de Silva-Wijeyeratne, Roshan, 280

de Valera, Eamonn, 7, 202–203, 210, 218, 227, 229–231, 235

de Vattel, Emmerich, 278, 280

De Verborum Significatioune (Skene), 56

Declaratory Act 1719, 164–165, 179, 327

repeal of, 163, 166–167, 170

Defoe, Daniel, 102–103, 112

Democracy and Individual Rights (Lester), 298

Department of Economic Law (Estonia), 264

Devon Commission, 336

Dicey, A. V., 99, 104, 111–113, 209

Dixon J, 276

doctrine of equity of redemption, 150–152, 156, 160, 162

Dodd J, 193

Dodderidge, Sir John, 64

Dolben, Sir Gilbert, 128

Donegall, Earl of, 155–156

Dowse, Richard, 182

Dublin Paving Board, 176–178

Dudgeon Case, 297

Duffy, George Gavan, 201–202, 210, 220–221, 230

Duggan, Éamonn, 201–202

Duhigg, Bartholomew Thomas, 310–311

Dyer, Sir James, 64, 70–72

Earl of Oxford’s Case, 85

Edward I, 308, 322

Edward II, 64

Edward IV, 318

Edward, David, 210

Edwards v. Attorney General of Canada, 296

Elizabeth I, 64, 69, 314

Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, 74–75, 86, 91

Employment Contracts Act of 1992 (Estonia), 269

Employment Contracts Act of 2008 (Estonia), 269

English Law – the New Dimension (Scarman), 298

English Record Commission, 310

entails, 32, 154–155

An Essay on a Registry, for Titles on Land (Asgill), 152–153

Estonia

constitutional change in, 256–257, 274

decisive factors in constitutional change, 259–262

and drafting comprehensive legal codes, 268–269

historical and societal landscape, 257–263

and legal profession generational divide, 262–263

legal reforms required for constitutional change, 257–258

Ministry of Justice reforms, 263–266

political oversight during reform period, 266–268

role of foreign experts in reform, 272–273

role of Ministry of Justice in reform, 270–272

role of senior officials in reform, 270–272

tabula rasa lawyers, 256, 258–259

Estonian Centre Party, 262

Estonian Coalition Party, 262

Estonian National Independence Party (ERSP), 259–260

Estonian Reform Party, 270

Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (ESSR), 256

final years of, 270–271

government elites, 260–261

legal system, 257–258

political landscape of, 263

European Communities Act 1972, 299

European Convention on Human Rights (1950), 294–296

incorporation into British law, 298–299

European Court of Human Rights, 295–296, 298–299, 302–304

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, 96

Evans, Richard, 129

Everard, Sir Nugent, 185

Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, 289–290

Extension Act of 1858, 311

Eyre, Sir Robert, 128

Fane, Henry, 137

Faulks, Lord, 302

felony, husband-killing as, 12–13

feoffments of uses, 27, 38

Fergus, T. D., 48

Ferguson, Samuel QC, 314–316

Fiennes, Thomas, 35

First Nations people

and Australian rule of law, 275–278

constitutional recognition of, 288–290, 292–293

denials of rule of law to, 283–288

and the Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017), 290–292

and the Voice proposal, 276, 291–293

fiscal feudalism, 3

Fleetwood, William, 69

Foley, Thomas, 131

Fordyce, Alexander, 131

Foster’s Corn Law, 172–173

Four Courts (Dublin), 309, 311–313, 317

1922 fire, 2, 196, 326, 328–330

Extension Act of 1858, 311

Marshalsea, 335

Record Treasury, 313–315

restoration of, 319, 323

Fox, Charles James, 143–145

Foyle College, 182

Frederick V, 89

French, Percy, 182

French, Robert, 312

Friedman, Milton, 260

Gardner, Sir Edward, 298

Garvin, Tom, 219, 232

Gearty, Conor, 295, 306

Genovese, Ann, 280

George, David Lloyd, 200–201, 204, 210, 213, 215, 219, 222–228, 230–231, 234

German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, 272

Gibbs CJ, 282

Gillard, Julia, 289

Glanvill, 49–50

Glanvil’s Case, 85–86

Glentoran, Lord, 249–250, 253

Godfrey, Mark, 54

Godolphin, Earl of, 107

Golder Case, 296

Good Friday Agreement (1998), 97

Goodwin v. Fortescue, 127

Government of Ireland Act 1920, 6, 181, 183, 185, 188–189, 194–196, 200, 214, 239, 243, 316

and the Lord Chancellor role, 186–187

Grattan, Henry, 163–164, 166–167

Gray’s Inn, 39, 131, 205

Great Famine of 1845, 336

Great Northern Railway Acts, 244

Great Northern Railway Board (GNRB), 244, 246, 248–255

Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRI), 8, 254–255

aftermath of partition, 251–254

challenges facing, 237–238

and the Common Travel Area, 238

and Council of Ireland, 239

operation of joint ownership, 245–251

and partition, 238–240

post-war challenges, 240–245

Railway Agreement, 245, 255

Greenwood, Hamar, 205, 228

Grey, Thomas, 31

Griffith, Arthur

and the constitution of the Irish Free State, 7, 200–204, 211–212, 218, 225–227

and Ireland border issues, 200, 206–215

and Treaty settlement, 229–231, 234–235

Griffith, Margaret C., 322

Gross, Sir Peter, 303

Guide to the Records (PROI) (Wood), 322, 325, 337

Gwynn, Denis, 207

habeas corpus, 4, 63, 68–74, 78, 334

Hall, Edward, 30, 34–35

Hamilton, Ian, 98–99

Hardwicke, Lord, 139, 141

Hardy, Thomas Duffus, 319

Harington, Sir James, 88

Harkness, Sir Douglas, 247–248, 250

Harley, Edward, 130

Harte’s Law of Banking, 193

Hay, William, 129

Heads of Bill procedure, 6, 152, 163–167, 171, 175, 179

Henry II, 323

Henry VI, 318

Henry VII, 29–43

Henry VIII, 3, 28–29, 42, 68, 95, 319

and Dacre’s Case, 29–30, 38, 43

Henry, Sir Denis, LCJ (NI), 6, 184–185, 187, 192–193

Hewart, Gordon, 204, 210, 223

High Commission of Civil Law (Estonia), 268

High Court of Appeal for Ireland, 186–195

High Court of Justiciary, 45, 113

History of the Reign of King Henry VII (Bacon), 95

Holt CJ, 126, 132

homicide, husband-killing as, 19–21

Hoppit, Julian, 151

House of Commons. See also Human Rights Act 1998

and Act of Union 1707, 107

and admission to borough office, 127–128

and the Catholic Relief Act, 180

Committee on Privileges and Elections, 122–123, 128

and European Convention on Human Rights, 298, 303–305

and public law, 78

and quo warranto, 128–130, 139, 142, 145

House of Commons, Irish, 163, 165, 187, 196, 310, 326–327

House of Lords

and Act of Union 1707, 107

as consitutional court, 113–119

and European Convention on Human Rights, 303

and Human Rights Act 1998, 300

post-union Scottish appeals to, 100

as predecessor to UK Supreme Court, 5, 101, 117, 121

and quo warranto, 140, 144

Select Committee on the Constitution, 298

on defining constitutional change, 168–170

‘two p’s test’, 169–170

House of Lords, Irish, 163, 165–166, 185, 196

and Constitution of 1782, 170–171

Judicial Committee of, 195

Howard, G. E., 156, 161

Howard, John, 289

Howard, Michael, 301

Howden, George, 245

Human Rights Act 1998, 9, 294–306. See also European Convention on Human Rights

criticism and efforts at reform, 300–306

husband-killing

as a felony, 12–13

as homicide, 19–21

medieval legal understanding of, 14–21

as petty treason, 21

and treason, 3, 11–23, 25–26

Illegal Migration Act 2023, 305

Incumbered Estates Acts 1848/1849, 336

Incumbered Estates Court (IEC), 336–337

Independent Human Rights Act Review, 303

Independent Review of Administrative Law, 302

Indian National Association, 96

Inquiry into the Literary and Political Character of James I (D’Israeli), 88

International Human Rights Law project, 294

Irish (Grattan’s) Parliament, and constitutional change, 164–167

Irish Act for the Relief of Mortgagees 1733, 156, 158

Irish Convention Act 1793, 333

Irish Free State, 1, 7, 181, 195, 198–202, 209. See also Constitution of the Irish Free State (1922)

1922 Constitution drafting, 216–236

Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922, 195

Irish Land Commission (ILC), 206, 337

Irish parliament

and the Constitution of 1782, 169–171

English influence in post 1782, 178–179

Irish Provisional Government

and drafting of Constitution of the Irish Free State (1922), 220–222

and Treaty settlement, 229–231

Irish Record Commission, 318, 320

Irish Volunteers, 204

Isamaa party (Estonia), 259

ius commune, 54

Ives, E. W., 33

Jacob, Giles, 137

James Crean & Son Ltd v. McMillan, 193

James Findlay and others, 44, 58

James I, 119

1619 charter of, 138

Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance, 83

apotheosis of, 81–86

as aspiring peacemaker, 86–90

as aspiring unifier of crowns, 242–243

Basilicon Doron, 83–84, 87

contemporary resonances to period of, 93–97

Daemonology, 83–84

Meditation upon the 27, 28, 29 Verses of the xxvii Chapter of St Matthew, 93

Proclamation on the Post-Nati, 91–93

The Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 83

James VI of Scotland, 4, 57, 105, 119. See also James I

Jekyll, Sir Joseph, 130

Johnston, William, 1

Joint Committee on Human Rights, 303

Jones, Thomas, 204, 208, 210, 222

Journal of the House of Commons, 327

judicial review, 114, 141

beginnings of, 4, 63–79

by quo warranto, 5, 123, 133, 145

divergence of in England and Scotland, 120

and prerogative writs, 68–78

restrictions of, 142

Kama, Kaido, 260, 264, 271

Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse, 94

Kelly, James, 149

Kennedy, Hugh, 7, 195–196, 220–222, 226–227, 230–231, 233

Kennedy, Michael, 244

Kenyon CJ, 143–145

King Lear (Shakespeare), 92

King’s Inns, 203, 309–310

Kinkel, Klaus, 272

Kirby v. Kerry CC, 190

Kirribilli Statement (2015), 290

Kõve, Villu, 269

Krygier, Martin, 284

La Touche, John Hames Digges, 315

Laar, Mart, 259, 261, 271

Labour Party, 298

Labour Party (Australia), 290

Lacey, Nicola, 45

Laffan, Michael, 230

Lambert’s Case, 70–71

Land Judges Court (LJC), 337

land registry, Irish, 151–153

Landed Estates Court (LEC), 337

Langham, Albert, 322

Lavery, Daniel, 281

Law of Obligations Act (Estonia), 267, 269–270, 273

Law Reporting Council of Ireland, 187

The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, 56

Laws of England (Halsbury), 208

LeHunt, Thomas, 147

Lemass, Seán, 244, 250, 252–253, 255

Lester, Anthony, 297–298

Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, 28–30, 36

Leverick, Fiona, 45

Leyburn v. Armagh CC (No. 1), 187–189, 195

Leyburn v. Armagh CC (No. 2), 189–190

libel, 54–57, 60, 62, 143–144

Libesman, Terri, 279

Liiv, Daimar, 261

Linen Board, 173–175

linen laws, 173–175

Lloyd George, David. See George, David Lloyd

Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, 188

Long, Walter, 183–184

Loot, Heiki, 271

Lyons, F. S. L., 230

Lyttleton, Sir Richard, 131

Maarahva Ühendus (the Rural People’s Union), 262

Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2), 277, 281–283

Macartney, George, 331

MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, 98, 109

MacCormick, John, 98–99

MacGarry, Charles J., 318

Macgregor v. Lord Advocate, 118

MacGugan, Joanna, 325

MacLean, A. J., 100, 105, 112

Macmillan, Harold, 252

Maginess, Brian, 246–247

Magna Carta 1215, 69–70, 74, 78, 308

actions against, 67–68

and restraints on king’s power, 65

Maguire, Conor A., 207

Maitland, F. W., 63–64

Major Practicks, 51–52

Makarrata Commission, 291

Malicious Injuries Code, 189–190

Malone Case, 297

mandamus, 4, 68, 73–75, 78

Manderson, Desmond, 286–287

Manners, Lord, 310

Mansfield CJ, 131–133, 137, 142

Marlborough, Duke of, 107

Martin, Leonard, 131, 145

Mary I, 70

Masters, John, 134

Mathieson, W. L., 100

May, Theresa, 302

McBride, Lawrence, 183

McCleery, William, 242–245, 253

McDowell v. Dublin Corporation, 190

McHarg, Aileen, 100

McKnight v. Armagh CC, 190

Middle Temple, 69, 203

Middleton, Thomas, 87

Miller (No. 1), 116

Miller (No. 2)/Cherry, 109, 116

Mills, James, 322

Milton, John, 85

Ministry of Home Affairs v. Fisher, 296

Mitchell, J. D. B., 100, 111, 117, 120

Moderate party (Estonia), 259

Molony, Sir Thomas, 185, 187, 190

Morice, James, 70

Morrissey, James F., 318–319

mort d’ancestor, 324

Mortgage Bill 1764, 147–148, 160–161

mortgages

and creditor protections, 155–156

and creditor rights, 154–161

and debtor protections, 150–152, 154–162

and discrimination against Roman Catholics, 153–154

and doctrine of the equity of redemption, 150–152, 156, 160, 162

doctrine of, 153–159

history of in Irish law, 150–159

in Jamaica, 159

legislation, 5, 147–153, 159–162

and property law, 149–154

and Roman Catholic rights, 147–151

‘The Mountains of Mourne’ (French), 182

Moyle J, 66

Municipal Corporations Act 1711, 5, 122, 137

and the election cycle, 132–133

and misuses of quo warranto, 145–146

and quo warranto, 122–123

quo warranto prosecutions under, 130–131

Municipal Offices Act 1711, 128

Murnaghan, James A., 206, 213

Murphy, Brian, 229

Murtagh, Timothy, 2

Mytens, Daniel, 87

Mytton’s Case, 71–72

The National Archives (UK), 331–332

National Archives of Ireland (NAI), 332–333

National Library of Ireland (NLI), 338

Neal, David, 284

New Atlantis (Bacon), 87

Noblett v. Leitrim CC, 191

Nolan-Whelan, James, 205, 208, 212

Northern Ireland Civil Service, 247

Northern Ireland Government, 8

and the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, 241–242, 245–253, 255

Northey, Sir Edward, 124–125

Norton, Sir Fletcher, 141–142

O’Brien, Sir Peter, 338

O’Bryne, John O., 205–208, 211–213

O’Connell, Daniel, 331

O’Connor, Moya, 207

O’Connor, Sir Charles, 192–193

O’Higgins, Kevin, 221, 235

O’Neill, Terence, 253

Official Papers, 1760–1830 (Ireland), 328

Oh, Mr Porter!, 237, 254

Olmius, John, 137

originalism, 296, 304

Otway-Ruthven, Jocelyn, 323

Oviir, Mihkel, 263, 270–272

Paget, Henry, 331

Pakenham, Frank, 204, 209, 215

Palles, Christopher, 182, 191

parliament. See also House of Commons; House of Lords

and quo warranto, 141–143

sovereignty of, 99, 108–110

Parliamentary Record Office, 326, 328

Pärna, Priidu, 264, 272

Patrick McGregor and others, 61

pax Jacobus, 86, 88–89

The Peace-Maker (Middleton), 87

Peace Preservation Force, 334

The Peaceful Reign of James I (Rubens), 86

Peel, Robert, 334

Peerage Act 1963, 107

penal laws, 148–149, 151, 153

Petition of Right 1628, 66, 73, 78

Pifferi, Michele, 45

Pikamäe, Priit, 267

Pitt, William, 144

Plowden, Edward, 67, 70

Popham CJ, 77

Power, Nancy, 204

Poynings’ Law, 163–164, 166–167, 179, 327

prerogative power, royal

and Act of Union 1707, 108–109

and common law, 4

and judicial review, 65–67

prerogative writs, 63–64, 68, 75. See also habeas corpus; prohibition; mandamus; certiorari

and the history of public law, 68–78

primer seisin, bill of, 29–32, 34–35, 38, 42

Prisons (Ireland) Act 1826, 335

Private International Law Act (Estonia), 270

Privy Council

and Anglo-Irish Treaty, 201

appeals, 231

appeals of, 236

British, 153

and constitution of the Irish Free State, 224

and doctrine of art and part, 3, 62

and Dominion precedent, 7, 226, 231

of Great Britain, 106

and habeas corpus, 72, 78

and Heads of Bill procedure, 5

Judicial Committee of, 115, 208, 216, 225, 296

jurisdiction of, 61, 209, 215, 279

legal powers of, 72, 77, 327

and mandamus, 75

and Poynings’ Law, 166, 327

and royal prerogative power, 68

Privy Council, Irish, 165–166, 171, 179, 330

Privy Council, United Kingdom, 166, 178–179

Proclamation on the Post-Nati (James I), 91–93

proditio, 12, 16–17

prohibition, 4, 69, 75, 111

Property Law Act (Estonia), 268

Protestants, 147, 149, 153–154, 251

Prout Case, 324–325

public law

as British, 117–121

history of, 63–65

prerogative writs in history of, 68–78

roots of, 65–67

Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI), 2, 339–340. See also Four Courts (Dublin)

ancient rolls in archives of, 317–325

beginnings, 308–310

and the land question, 335–339

legal setting, character and functions, 309–317

as nerve centre of government, 325–335

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 330–331

Public Records (Ireland) Act 1867, 311, 316, 332

Quia Emptores 1290, 27

quo warranto, 5, 66, 69

and admission to Borough Office, 123–128

and derivative franchise, 125

and the election cycle, 132–133

grounds for review under, 133–137

and historical or systemic invalidity, 137–141

and the House of Commons, 128–130

and misuses of Municipal Corporations Act 1711, 145–146

and the Municipal Corporations Act 1711, 122–123, 131

and parliament, 141–143

Quo Warranto Act 1792, 143–145

Quoniam Attachiamentia, 47–49

R. v. Murrell, 285

R. v. Taylor, 126

Raab, Dominic, 302–303

Rabone Case, 304

Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (Australia), 277

Raidla, Jüri, 264

Rait, R. S., 104, 111–113

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 89

Rask, Märt, 264, 268, 270

Rebellion Papers, 332

Record House, 313, 322

Record Tower, 320, 332

Record Treasury, 2, 308, 313–315, 322

Red Book of the Exchequer (Ireland), 307–308, 317

Referendum Council (Australia), 290

Reform Act 1832, 107

Reformation Parliament, 3, 27–28, 30, 42, 319

Regiam Majestatem, 46–47, 57

Reilly, Alexander, 280

Reith Lectures (Lord Sumption), 302

Renunciation Act 1783, 167, 171

Richard II (Shakespeare), 95

Rights Brought Home: The Human Rights Bill 1997, 298

Roman Catholics

and mortgages, 153–154

mortgage legislation and, 147–151

and penal laws, 148–149, 151, 153

precursors to emanicipation of, 5

Romano-canonical taxonomy of exceptions, 54–55

Romney, Lord, 133, 140

Roper’s Case, 85

Ross, Rev Robert, 181

Ross, Sir John, 6, 195–197

early years, 181–183

and the High Court of Appeal for Ireland, 186–195

identification with Ulster Unionists, 183

initial judicial appointments, 183

and the Lord Chancellor’s mace, 195–197

as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 184–185

Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland aspirations, 183–184

parliamentary career, 183

Presbyterianism of, 181–183, 197

as Speaker of the Senate of Southern Ireland, 185–186

Royal Irish Constabulary, 334

Royal Titles Act 1953, 98

Rubens, Peter Paul, 80–81

rule of law

Australian history of, 278

and claims of sovereignty, 278–283

colonisation and evolution of, 283–288

evolution of in Australia, 278–288

Rundle, Kristen, 280

Russell, Charles, 209

Russell, Francis Xavier, 209

Russell, Frank, 7, 209

Ryder, Dudley, 130

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, 305

Saner v. Bilton, 194

Saunders, Sir Edward, 69–70

Scarman, Sir Leslie, 63, 298

Schlectriem, Peter, 273

Scots law. See also art and part, doctrine of

and the Acts of Union, 102–104

early sources of, 46–49

Scott, James C., 340

Scottish Privy Council, 106

Seabrooke, Edward, 123

Seas and Submerged Lands Case, 282

Select Charters (Stubbs), 64

Senate of Southern Ireland, 185–186

The Settlement of the Land Bank (Asgill), 152

Several Special Cases on the Laws against the Further Growth of Popery in Ireland (Howard), 161

Siimann, Mart, 262

Silver Case, 297

Simpson, Andrew, 100

Sinn Féin, 6–7, 198, 200–202, 204, 207–210

Skene, Sir John, 46–47, 56

Smith, F. E. See Birkenhead, Lord

Smith, T. B., 113, 118–119

Smith’s Case, 128

Snagge, Robert, 70

sovereignty, claims of, 278–283

Spelman, Sir John, 68

Stack, Austin, 205, 209

Stair Society, 47–49

Stanley, Edward, 31

Star Chamber, 75, 83

State Paper Office (SPO), 332

Statute of Enrolments, 29–30, 39–43

Statute of Limitations 1623, 142

Statute of Marlborough, 28, 33

Statute of Treasons 1352, 14–15, 18–19, 26

Statute of Uses 1536, 3, 27–30, 36–43

drafts of, 29–43

and the Statute of Enrolments, 29–30, 39–43

Statutes and Ordinances and Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, King John to Henry V (Berry), 317

Statutes of Kilkenny, 1366, 317

Stevens, Robert, 204

Stewart, Robert, 331

Straw, Jack, 298

Strode, William, 130

Stubbs, W., 64

The Student’s Companion or Reason of Laws (Jacob), 137

stylus curiea, 54

Sumption, Lord, 301

Sunday Times Case, 297

Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) Act 1877, 186, 190, 337

Sutherland, Robert, 110

Synot, Eddie, 280

Taltarum’s Case, 32

Tarand, Andres, 261

Taylor, Peter, 131

The Tempest (Shakespeare), 87

terra nullius, 9, 278, 280–282

Toleration Act 1688, 124

Torres Strait Islander peoples, 9, 276–278, 282, 289–293

Townshend, George, 326, 331

Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1948, 242

treason

burning as penalty for, 13

constitutional change as, 3

and husband-killing, 3, 11–23, 25–26

petty, 17–21

Treatise on the Rules and Practice of the Equity Side of the Exchequer in Ireland (Howard), 156

Treaty of Berlin, 213

Treaty of Union, 98–100, 104, 116

The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (James I), 81–83

Trinity College, Dublin, 182

Tucker, Richard, 315

Turnpike Acts, 175–176

‘two p’s’ test, 169–170

and the Constitution of 1782, 169–170

Tyrer v. United Kingdom, 295, 297

UK Supreme Court, 101, 113–117, 305

Ulpian, 65, 82

Ulster Transport Authority (UTA), 238, 240, 245–246, 251, 253

Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017), 9, 290–292

The Union of Crowns (Rubens), 90

Union of the Crowns, 4, 105, 119

Unionist Party (Ireland), 6, 8, 183, 189, 198, 200, 205, 240–243, 245–246, 251–252, 255

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 294

University of Dublin Tests Act 1873, 182

University of Tartu’s Faculty of Law, 263–264, 268, 270–271, 273

Vähi, Tiit, 262, 270

van Dyck, Antony, 80

van Somers, Paul, 80

Varul, Paul, 262, 268–271

Vavasor, Richard, 123

Villiers, George, 89

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), 2, 307–309, 340

Voice proposal (Australia), 276, 291–293

void/voidable theory of invalidity, 139

Volunteers, Irish, 166, 207

Wade, Lord, 298

Walker, Neil, 114–115

Walpole, Sir Robert, 129–131, 145

Walsh, John Edward, 314

Warren, Robert R., 316

Watson, Lord, 279

Webb, Serjeant, 128

Weldon, Antony, 87

West v. Secretary of State for Scotland, 121

Whidby, Daniel, 125

Willes, John, 126

William Jameson and another, 59–60

Wilson, Adelyn, 100

Wolsey, Thomas, 70

Wood, Herbert, 308, 317–318, 322

Worthington-Evans, Laming, 204

Wycherly v. Flynn, 193

Yelverton’s Act, 166–167, 174–175

Young Case, 297

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