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A Leap in the Dark

CHAPTER II
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No process would (it is submitted) be considered in an Irish or British Court as not a 'due' process, for which a parallel could be found in the legislation of the Imperial Parliament.

But the Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882, sec.

1, to instance no other enactment, took away the right to trial by jury in cases of trial for treason, murder, etc.
3.

Private property might still in fact be taken without just compensation.

The Privy Council would not apparently have to consider whether in any given case property was taken without just compensation, but whether a particular law was a law whereby it might be taken without just compensation.


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