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104 thereto; and that the king’s majety, with the conent of the lords and commons of Great Britain in parliament, hath power to make laws to bind the people of Ireland.

we ee how extenively the laws of Ireland communicate with thoe of England: and indeed uch communication is highly neceary, as the ultimate reort from the courts of jutice in Ireland is, as in Wales, to thoe in England; a writ of error (in the nature of an appeal) lying from the king’s bench in Ireland to the king’s bench in England, as the appeal from the chancery in Ireland lies immediately to the houe of lords here: it being exprely declared, by the ame tatute 6 Geo. I. c. 5. that the peers of Ireland have no juridiction to affirm or revere any judgments or decrees whatoever. The propriety, and even neceity, in all inferior dominions, of this contitution, “that, though jutice be in general adminitred by courts of their own, yet that the appeal in the lat reort ought to be to the courts of the uperior tate,” is founded upon thee two reaons. 1.&ensp;Becaue otherwie the law, appointed or permitted to uch inferior dominion, might be inenibly changed within itelf, without the aent of the uperior. 2.&ensp;Becaue otherwie judgments might be given to the diadvantage or diminution of the uperiority; or to make the dependence to be only of the peron of the king, and not of the crown of England.

regard to the other adjacent ilands which are ubject to the crown of Great Britain, ome of them (as the ile of Wight, of Portland, of Thanet, &c.) are comprized within ome neighbouring county, and are therefore to be looked upon as annexed to the mother iland, and part of the kingdom of England. But there are others, which require a more particular conideration. ,