15-MAY-1991
16:41
DIRECTOR OF HUM.
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dale was of Nevertheless SAK opinion that the king nad power to debase
the decided cases wefore us coinage, and with
in tne it is oifficult to say that he was
not certain that wrong. Even clackstone was
Well, so far as i this power did not exist.
has never been expressl; am aware, that power taken away by statue. we may say pretty confidently that the power does not exist
has been expressly 1t nas fallen into
out
why? Not because it taxen away, not because cesuetuae, but wecause for d very long time Ilked the amount of yolu past statutes have ing
the coins: thus by statute Soverelyn is to welyn 123.27447 grains, 13 to be eleven-twelitns yola and alloy.
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so long 29 such statutes exist prerogative power of regulating the coinage Cannot De used, put gone through those Jeal
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it the whole ground of something which be done by the prerogative is coverec the statute, rules."
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To the citations in the judgments of
that
the other members of
this court i would aou the following dictum of Lord Pearce
at p.1370 in the Burman 01l case:
The prerogative is the resioue of the power of sovereignty that nas not been superseded or abridged or supplanted temporarily by the power of the King in Parliament. The law and Parliament have so
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