Case of Proclamations

Case of Proclamations

in the constitutional law of the UK, the case that laid down the principle that the Crown could not, simply by declaring acts to be offences in criminal law, make them so.
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To give a few examples, it is impossible to imagine that anything similar to the English "Case of Proclamations" could ever occur in Russia.
Criminal law in Muscovy
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