Excerpt from The Celebrated Speeches of Colonel Henry Flood, on the Repeal of the Declaratory Act of the 6th George Ist: As Delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland, on the 11th and 14th of June, 1782 Now this'is {0 far from a renunciation, that it is the yery contrary; and a repeal without a renunciation leaves you in effeet only where you were. It is a firr principle of law, that a Declaratory Aft onlyvdeclares ithe law to he what it was before 3, that is to fay, that it only declares, and that it does not alter the law.. What follows? That as makinga Declaratory A8: does not alter law, fo neither can the mere unmaking alter law. Or 1n other words it follows, that if a De claratory Ae't 13 not pronounced to have been an error neons Declaration of Law, the bare repeal of it can do no other than leave the law m that Rate ln which the Declaratory Aft did declare it to have been before fuch Declaratory Aft paffcd. An enaa'ing Rature alters the jaw when it is made, and confequently when it is re. 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.