...some respects, and by 1611 Sir Edward Coke, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was opining that "the King hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land," as interpreted by judges, "allows." Furthermore, Coke declared, even the actions of Parliament— an...

...change the law. Coke summed up his position in the following well-known words: the king, he declared, 'hath no prerogative, but that which the law of the land allows him.'16 Craig states that the significance of this decision is three-fold: first, 'it clearly established...

...Co Rep 63 and the Proclamations' Case (1611) 12 Co Rep 74. In the latter case he declared, at p 76, that 'the King hath no prerogative, but that which the law of the land allows him'. It is, of course, beyond doubt that in Coke's time and thereafter judicial review of the exercise of...

...Law, Statute Law, and Custom; But the Kings Proclamation is none of them . . . Also it was resolved, that the King hath no prerogative, but that which the Law of the Land allows him. But the King for prevention of Offences, may by Proclamation admonish his Subjects that they keep the...

...that the king by his proclamation cannot create any offence which was not an offence before. . . . That the king hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him . . . and lastly, that if an offence be not punishable in the Star Chamber, the prohibition of it by...

...such an offence as is prohibited by Act of Parliament and not by proclamation. Also it was resolved, that the King hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him. But the King, for prevention of offences, may by proclamation admonish his subjects that they keep...