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by Judge Jenkins for that purpose: (66) and, though it may be alledged, against the, authority of this Act of Parliament, that another Act may unbind what it has bound, according to the maxim, “eodem modo quo quid constituitur, eodem modo dissolvitur:” yet a due consideration of this very maxim will afford us a substantial argument to the contrary: for, at the time the said Act was made, (viz, in the 42 Ed. III.) the Great Charter had been expressly confirmed by many Parliaments, not only in the reigns of that noble king’s ancestors, but also by at least TWELVE preceding Parliaments (67) even in his own glorious reign; so that the Parliament, in his 42d year, had certainly sufficient authority
