Praemunire

The first case was an action of _praemunire_ against the court of chancery, evidently instigated by him, but brought at the instance of certain parties whose adversaries had obtained redress in the chancellor's court after the cause had been tried in the court of king's bench. ❋ Various (N/A)

On the 26th June he was called before the council to answer certain charges, one of which was his conduct in the _praemunire_ question. ❋ Various (N/A)

In form, the Act in Restraint of Appeals was not a fresh piece of legislation but a declaration of the existing law; a flat assertion that any appeal to the jurisdiction of Rome from the English courts brought the appellant under the penalties of praemunire, the "spiritualty" of the country being competent to deal with spiritual cases, and the sovereign recognising no jurisdiction superior to his own. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The clergy were informed that they lay one and all under the royal displeasure for breach of praemunire (of which they had in fact been technically guilty), and could only hope for pardon by purchasing it for something over £100,000 -- practically equivalent to about a couple of millions now. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Standish, and declared that the Bishops had incurred the penalties of praemunire. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

As it had availed Wolsey nothing that his breach of praemunire had been countenanced by the King, so it availed Cromwell nothing that the King had seemed to support him. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The incredible meanness of the praemunire, and consequent confiscation, which the cardinal was pronounced to have incurred for obtaining the cardinalate and legateship from Rome -- though of course this had been done with the king's full knowledge and consent ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

At the beginning of 1531 the Convocation of Canterbury were informed that they could purchase a pardon for the praemunire they had incurred by presenting the king with the enormous sum of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The first blow was struck at the clergy by involving them in Wolsey's praemunire. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Act was passed by which the first refusal of the oath of royal supremacy was praemunire, the second, high treason. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The secular and Parliamentary origin of praemunire and conge d 'elire were less notorious and more disagreeable subjects. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)

Henry established the supremacy of the State by letters patent, praemunire, and conge d'elire. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)

State by letters patent, praemunire, and conge d'elire. ❋ Unknown (1894)

If a couple of persons, duly called by banns in their own respective parishes, or furnished with the right reverend's perquisite, a licence, come to me, a clerk in holy orders, and ask me to marry them, I've a vague idea that unless I comply I lay myself open to the penalties of praemunire, or something else equally awful and mysterious. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

In the second Richard's reign, so eventful for the English interest in Ireland, it had been enacted that any of the clergy procuring appointments directly from Rome, or exercising powers so conferred, should incur the penalty of a praemunire -- that is, the forfeiture of their lands and chattels, beside being liable to imprisonment during the King's pleasure. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)

Such are many words in the common law, as _capias, habeas corpus, praemunire, nisi prius_: such are some terms of controversial divinity, as _hypostasis_; and of physick, as the names of diseases; and, in general, all terms which can be found in books not written professedly upon particular arts, or can be supposed necessary to those who do not regularly study them. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

The very bundles of money which Joseph returned, in kindness to his father, frightened him (v. 35); for he concluded it was done with some mischievous design, or perhaps suspected his own sons to have committed some offence, and so to have run themselves into a praemunire -- a penalty, which is intimated in what he says (v. 36): Me have you bereaved. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Han't I brought myself into a fine praemunire, [1] to begin writing letters in whole sheets? and now I dare not leave it off. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)