An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, "the King never dies," that there may never be a "cesser" of regal functions for a moment.


Case of John Wilkes (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1130.

John Eardley Wilmot Quotes

An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, the King never dies, that there may never be a cesser of regal functions for...

An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, the King never dies, that there may never be a cesser of regal functions for...

An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, the King never dies, that there may never be a cesser of regal functions for...

An hiatus in government is so detested and abhorred, that the law says, the King never dies, that there may never be a cesser of regal functions for...