Excerpt from Report of the Committee on the Duty of Courts to Refuse to Execute Statutes in Contravention of the Fundamental Law: Presented at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association, Held at the City of Buffalo, January 22 and 23, 1915 Council of to-day, as well as the High Court of Australia upreme Court of Canada, frequently refuses to execute commonwealth, state and colonial laws in excess of or in Act of Parliainent creating the Dominion, The British Empire has been er of the Privy Council both in in judicially refusing to execute laws. Under the canon law throughout con ring the middle ages, the national constitution in England part Of Magna Charta and several were refused execution wherever they conflicted anon law or liberties of the Church. 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.