Excerpt from The Standard Library Cyclopaedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical and Forensic Knowledge, Vol. 4 of 4 On this the Irish House of Lords resolved that no appeal lay from the Court of Exchequer in Ireland to the parliament of Great Britain. But this resolution was immediately met by an act of the British parliament, the 5 Geo. I. C. L, declaring that the king's ma jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal of Great Britain in parliament assembled, had, bath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the people and the kingdom of Ire land; and that the House of Lords in Ireland have not nor of right ought to have any jurisdiction to judge of, reverse. Or affirm any judgment, sentence, or de cree given or made in any court wi'.hin the said kingdom; and that all proceed ings before the said House of Lords upon any such judgment, sentence, or decree are and are hereby declared to be utterly null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.