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88:...AND over that be it enacted by the said authority that all suits, accusations, condemnations, executions, fines, amerciaments, punishments, corrections, grievances, charges and impositions put or had or hereafter to be put or had unto or upon the said Richard and to every other of the person or persons afore specified, that now be of this present parliament or that of any parliament hereafter shall be, for any bill speaking, reasoning, or declaring of any matter or matters concerning the parliament to be convened and treated of be utterly void and of none effect. And over that be it enacted by the said authority that if the said Richard Strode or any of all the said other person or persons hereafter be vexed, troubled or otherwise charged for any causes as is afore said, that then he or they and every of them so vexed or troubled of and for the same to have action upon the case against every such person or persons so vexing or troubling any contrary to this ordinance and provision, in the which action the party grieved shall recover treble damages and costs, and that no protection, essoin, nor 127:... and that it extends to indemnify all and every the Members of both Houses of Parliament, in all Parliaments, for and touching all Bills, speaking, reasoning, or declaring of any Matter or Matters in and concerning the Parliament, to be communed and treated of, and is only a declaratory law of the antient and necessary Rights and Privileges of Parliament. 107: 229: 204: 188: 41: 77: 193: 158: 116: 219: 234: 21: 244: 131:
This establishes the common law that privilege extends beyond mere protection against action for
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English Constitutional History: From the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time
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as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
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and applied to Strode only and not to other MPs. However, in 1667, both the
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and Strode was prosecuted and imprisoned before he could travel to
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had jurisdiction to enforce a law against the obstruction of
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In response, Parliament passed Strode's Act, now named the
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carried resolutions declaring Strode's Act a general law:
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in the said action in any wise be admitted nor received.
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Howell's State Trials
English
parliamentary privilege
Richard Strode
Member of Parliament
Devon
tin miners on Dartmoor
stannary court
tin mining
Westminster
Privilege of Parliament Act 1512
4 Hen. 8
Wager of Law
John Eliot
R v. Eliot, Hollis and Valentine
private act
Commons
House of Lords
defamation
treason
Bill of Rights 1689
Text of the Privilege of Parliament Act 1512
legislation.gov.uk
Tanner, J. R.
ISBN
0-85594-555-9
Taswell-Langmead, T. P.
ISBN
1-56169-245-X
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