Note 68 — LIVRE XII
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Note 68:
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Masères avait dit que la proclamation de 63 n'était pas suffisante pour abroger les lois; qu'il fallait un acte du parlement:
«If these arguments against the Kings being singly without the parliament, the legislator of this province are just, it will follow of course that all the ordinances hiherto passed in this province are null and void, as being founded at best (for I shall endeavour to show that they have not even this foundation) upon the King's single authority. And if so, then the great ordinance of the 17th of September, 1764, by which the French laws were abolished, and the laws of England introduced in in their stead, will be void amongst the rest; and consequently the French laws must, by virtue of the first maxim above laid down, be deemed to bi still legally in force.» A plan for settling the laws and the administration of justice in the Province of Quebec.