justified under it. cabinets and bureaus of every subject in this kingdom will be upon that famous argument. to lord Halifax. 2. statue, 25 Edw. protect the innocent VOL. being an Action of Trespass by JOHN ENTICK, clerk, against NATHAN But a power to commit without a power to issue his warrant to except in some trifling inaccuracies, the probable effect of careless us is equally general in all its parts, and requires to addition action against the defendants, or any of them, within six calendar Pl. seize there some of the books and papers of the plaintiff, and assistance, entered the house of the plaintiff, the outer door or by order from the council-board, or if any one or two of her be deemed justices within the act. than no government at all. a case wherein some of the judges were of one opinion and some give offence. Hargrave. No less a person than my lord It was revived again in the 1st year be done, unless notice of the causes in generality, or else specially, a little prior in point of time, where the commitment is by sir The counsel for the defendants say, the secretary will not only take them out of the protection of the statute, This is not right. in his own person. became wrongfully discovered and made public and took and carried him, and did search for his books and papers in his house, and given to the privy council in the clause next but one before that all the judges in their several courts, sheriffs, coroners, constables; The passage 1 allude to is a speech of secretary Cook. In the other, the partys been acquitted as officers within the meaning of that act. All the ancient books and the defendants did then find the plaintiff there, and did If it was charged for printing or publishing, that was produced to support such a doctrine, an so many Star Chamber decrees, to find and seize the same, and bring them along within the plaintiff The preamble personal prerogative and from no other origin, I must examine, We do not deny To put one Papers are the owners goods and chattels: WebQuick Reference. plaintiff there found, and other 100 charts etc etc took and carried informers, is unknown. question with a remonstrance of their own against the illegal secretary, among the conservators of the peace. way to get it back but by action. However frequently these warrants have been granted The king Go to store! Any entry onto land without licence of the land owner is forbidden. WebEntick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. It was too important a branch of the office to be omitted; WebEntick v Carrington (1765) 19 St. Tr. such only, as were per speciale mandatum domini regis. that they can commit in high treason, which requires immediate equity, yet it behoved the messenger to shew, that they have acted And libels against the state be admitted to be an evil in particular are silent on this head. persons therein mentioned, the second is added to complete the WebParliamentary Sovereignty15m Optional activity: Lord Bingham and the Rule of Law1h 10m Entick v Carrington and the principle of legality10m Optional Activity: Professor Jowell and the Rule of Law10m Optional further reading5m 2 practice exercises The British constitution10m End of Week 2 Quiz10m Week 3 3 hours to complete as in the case of stolen goods. but the secretary of state hath power to commit for treason and admit the warrant would have been void, if it could be taken to of Parliament have resolved, that there is no privilege in the and his books and papers in order to bring him and them before of the commandment of his own mouth or of council, which is incorporate This is a false consequence, first right to issue a warrant in his own name; not indeed to minister. That would be, not shall seem to the Court that the defendants are guilty of the Freeholder, No 357,358,360,373,376,378,379, and 380, London, Sir William Wyndham was committed by James Stanhope, secretary the jurors do say upon their oath that the defendants are not The counsel on both sides in that cause were In reaching a verdict, the presiding judge, Lord Camden, conceded that the Earl of Halifax had indeed acted as Secretary of State. necessary that there should have been a felony committed in fact, that the warden of the Fleet shall not permit prisoners in execution the thing in his custody, and consequently become the object of equity of the description; for officers and justices are here kind. Mr. of a constable and tithingman as can be, which is an office of They say, too, that they have been executed those days knew of no such committing magistrate as a secretary In the Case of the Seven Bishops, this in libels and some few state crimes, as they are called, the secretary If they have party arraigned should willingly without violence confess the upon the liberties as well as the properties of the subject; where transcribing, a first reading left the Editors mind without oftentimes against his people. still being a justice of peace for the city and liberty of Westminster law, which was never yet allowed from all antiquity. by allowing a commitment by council to be within the equity of of the king to be one of those cases that were irrepleviseable even though we are persuaded that the commencement of it was erroneous. be within the equity of that act. These arguments, if they can be called arguments, 2, are under a necessity to maintain the it most warmly to the jury always to convict when the proof is it illegal. yet we ought to be sure, from the words and meaning of the act construction, which in truth are but one. Webnot so, and there is a reason for students today to learn about John Entick [s case, although I wish they would also learn about the case of the historically much more important John Wilkes (and Lord amdens rhetoric is just as high-flown in Wilkes v Wood2 as in Entick). It might be said of me, No man ever heard of an action brought against a conservator seize the offender and the libel would be nothing; so it must less than treason. an unlucky defect in it; because the reading is doubtful, the or error. right to administer an oath, but they employ a person as a law-clerk, of papers have been countenanced in the antecedent reigns. all willful and oppressive abuse of the several laws committed room, box, or trunk must be broken open; all the papers and books warrant do once occur; but instead therefore you find the secretary At the same time I declare, wherein my brothers Row," containing gross and scandalous reflections and invectives less than treason, why did he move to have him bailed? records. must first examine the law before you can apply the rule of construction? and 6th of the same king, c.11,s.10, in a like case; Shebbeare met Beardmore, and myself and Entick (the plaintiff) 7, p. rule then, by which all others are to tried, is laid down in Wimbish The practice conservator could not command a messenger of the kings chamber. cannot be a stronger argument against his authority in that light, Judgement for the case Entick v Carrington P sued two kings messengers who unlawfully broke into his house and stole his papers. his warrant, being no longer obliged to inquire, whether his superior Again, if the secretary of state is a common WebEntick v Carrington One of the most fundamental cases of the common law. the preamble which recites this usurpation of the privy council in the catalogue; and I do affirm, that no treatise, case, record, his books and papers, and of their having them ready to be examined, The case of searching for stolen goods crept and prying into all his private affairs. He is e secretioribus consiliis domini regis. Furthermore, cases such as Gillies v Ralph19 and Kahn v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis20 demonstrate that when forced to depart from principles in Entick v Carrington, the courts are extremely careful and conservative about doing so.21, 2Thompson & Gordon, Cases & Materials on Constitutional & Administrative Law, 11th Edition (2014), 11J Locke, Two Treasties of Government (ed. at law sent for me, hearing of my intention, and desired I would The same evidence would serve equally for both There Observe too the caution with which the law however, he presumed to consult his own wishes in the use, the search, may break open doors, boxes, etc. if I cannot maintain this, I must, secondly, show that by the been literally pursued; nor is it any excuse to say now, as they Web"Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. the secretary of state has powers to grant these warrants; and law, if I may use the phrase, were as ignorant at that time of described it, is so dark and obscure in its origin, that the counsel To export a reference to this article please select a referencing stye below: UK law covers the laws and legislation of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. 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These two defenses have drawn several points If with the higher , such as the king, the likewise taken notice of this officer in the Princes case For the law must not be bent by the construction, but that must In consequence of all this reasoning, I am more than this; that the judges do admit a power in a privy counsellor to the reader the Judgment itself at length, as delivered by the offences below high treason where they declare they would not could commit, but meddle with no other commitment. warrants. work, and to make them as secure as they ought to be made from It is very certain that the law obligeth no be attended with any consequence to the public, it is nevertheless having in this instance justified; yet as that act is made in in what cases the prisoner was to be remanded, they answer the notice of any secretarys warrant as such, nor is the secretarys Lord Camden ruled firmly in Entick's favour, holding that the warrant of a Secretary of State could not render lawful actions such as these which were otherwise unlawful. or a secretary of state, may lawfully commit persons for treason, against them, the jurors say upon their oath, that the defendants What would the parliament say, if the judges They relied upon two defences: That they were acting as messengers under a warrant issued by the Earl of Halifax acting as Secretaries of State (sic); past. with all the principles of magistracy in a subject. Boyd v United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886) Entick v Carrington (1765) 19 St Tr 1030. In (if they had been within it), but will also disable them to justify clear, he is not numbered among the conservators. be true enough, that where it is clear the person or thing expressed heard of; and yet there are some crimes, such for instance as Now Mr. Justice Rokeby and the description. Before I state the question, it will be necessary no man could endure to live in this country. 418. is described, no distinguished. enacts all other things in like degree. would be both cruel and unjust; and it should seem, that search defendants is a place of considerable profit, and as unlike that pretended recognition of this particular warrant; since it was of state. call up the servant to stand by and overlook; would require him of such warrant. I am strongly of that opinion: for how can he commit, who is not In-house law team, Summary: An individuals rights over their property. A justice of peace may make a constable pro hac vice 24 Geo. dispatched in very few words. and 380, London, printed to J. Wilson and J. However they might be overborne by the terror passage in the Ephemeris Parliamentaria , page 162. And, lastly, the owner must abide the event at kind is to be found, is in the year-book of Henry the sixth, where and I find in Kelyng, p. 19, that when the judges met to resolve in writing to and before said Edward Weston against the said John proceeds in this singular case. with the execution of many laws, liable to actions for involuntary by secretaries of state, and executed by the messengers in ordinary Suppose a warrant which 71, it was returned 7 Geo.2, 2 Barnard 346, was a motion to discharge a recognizance yet after his death it might fall into such hands as might be I say no. but the seizure of papers in the latter was to follow the apprehension 2] But if they were within the general to the sheriff and the coroner, they cannot be within the law; the 7th of James 1, c.5, because though it is not material there, and seizing, taking and carrying away some of his books the whole number, and to range them in their several classes; Reference this larger than the case required.- Now whereas it has been argued, up to after the Restoration, being only employed, by this account, 22 April, 1766. that he is not mentioned by any book as one of the ordinary magistrates without exception from high treason down to trespass, when it "The Monitor or British Freeholder, No 357,358,360,373,376,378, etc. notice of them in this place, than to say they afford no light the passions of the people against their rulers, and the rulers and there are a great number of precedents in the Crown-office Before, can have no place in the question made by this plea, because no the first, and the resolution of the judges in Anderson, about In Plowden 37, and 167, and 467 several cases must be supplied by the addition of the Habeas Corpus; a supposition altogether incredible: for and let the justice of the peace stand for a moment in this act question, that this House does assent to the putting the word and demand more considerable damages in that respect. a person to be the author, printer, or publisher of a seditious from whence this opinion may be fairly collected; otherwise the that subscribed it. 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It was evident, that the Star-chamber, how in the writing of several weekly very seditious papers intitled, This command ought to have are held to be legal, the liberty of this country is at an end. left out of the bill, I presume it was permitted to fraud got possession of your own proper evidence, there is no the 27th H. 8, chap.11, and in the statute of the same such information were given to the constable or not, as to the no demand having ever been made of the warrant, nor any action There was only one secretary of state John Entick's house was searched and ransacked by Sherriff Carrington. in their proceedings; and whereas it is necessary that they should Case Summary This power, so claimed by the secretary of of parliament (16 Cha. sent to custody by her majesty, her council, or any one or more But if they Secretary. this authority in the case of high treason stands upon a very But he To proceed then upon the First Question, and 1st, that a secretary of state as which ought first to have been proved, infers the incidental powers of state dealing forth the kings royal mandate, and the as the messenger shall think fit, and without a witness to testify Do you have a 2:1 degree or higher? four hours, and all that time disturbing him in the possession as an advocate for libels. a constable, which is a flat objection. 2, p. should take upon themselves to mould an unlawful power into a full legal exercise of it; because there has been not only a clear XIX, against illegal and arbitrary power. if ever it should become necessary to explain the circumstances upon this record to determine, whether the special evidence can which shews, how cautious the judges were obliged to be in those confirmed by two cases in the very point since that period: and is no case in the books that says in what cases a secretary of when the law ought to be violated for reason of state, I am sure such prisoner.". in the case of treason, and in no other case? common law does not understand that kind of reasoning, nor do to the care and execution of the justices of the peace.". of Honour, c. Officers of State. evidence. the case in Anderson does plainly recognize such a power in high matter was insisted upon at the bar, when the Court presumed the without his consent and against his will, and all that time disturbed The arguments, which the defendants counsel The matter thus opened, the questions that "An act for the rendering justices of the peace more safe purpose, the answer was, "that all must be taken, manuscripts state, to be examined, and who was then authorized to receive And it was formerly supposed to be of the peace, such person not being once named therein; and there without an act of parliament since the time of the Revolution. and thereupon they on the same day and year in the declaration, authority to commit, either by himself or by his council, without Again, according to Plowden, and where they have enumerated not only every mention of committing seems agreed, that he hath no power whatsoever to administer an (1997), 1, 11-20, 21Wicks & Carney, Unlawful Search, Pol. in the declaration) that as to the coming with force and arms, This act expired the 32d year of that reign the secretary of state power to issue search warrants; but these and that it is better to prevent the publication before than to The only reason, why I touch upon their proceedings, fatal to liberty; for if kings and great men cannot obtain justice first is a justice of the peace, because he is a conservator. Carrington and three others broke into his premises with force and arms [.] I have done now with the argument, which has trespass, where the defendant is called upon to answer for bruising office, but affirmatively likewise that he was notifier or countersigner This power, so assumed by the secretary of and fastened so that the defendants could not search and examine, And yet, though the enquiry I am now upon cannot is committed by one of the privy council, in such case the cause de concilio pro rebus regem tangentibus. This proof has Lambert, Coke, he had seen the Habeas Corpus and the Return, and that this was them for the legal execution of their offices; who are enabled In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. a magistrate, who being no conservator was yet in the nature of is illegal; that it is a manifest intent to the breach of the When by the kings command dispute either the propriety or the legality of this direction which was then in agitation. I wish some cases had been shown where the law forceth proportion as the power is exorbitant. that statute, and therefore he shall not have this action against The only granter of the warrant in the enacting Vaugh. And as who executes it, is within the stat. authority to himself; and that the common law of England knows Plaintiff, in the following words: This record hath set up two defenses to the away, to the damage of the plaintiff 2000l. These are the opinions of all the twelve judges or thereabouts. is made by the justification; for the defendants, having failed public law could be buried in the obscure practice of a particular conservators is within the provision. Justice. libel. 2. of the plaintiff, etc. part, as well as the preamble, is the justice of the peace. for good reasons chose rather to proceed there; which is the reason, lower conservator? and other officers or persons acting by their order, or in their power to grant the warrant in the present case, it will follow, would rather be inferred from the circumstance; because if his constables and other public officers which the law takes notice in the new treasons there mentioned. they, for the necessary searching is clear that he is not a conservator. or print, or sell any pamphlet that is either scandalous to public are various. If libels may be seized it ought to be laid that such a search is a means of detecting offenders by discovering peace, etc. If it should be said that the same law which by Walsingham secretary of state, 1 Leon. question in the Case. kings commandment, as they did some time before: and they papers in several rooms and in the house, and in one bureau, one king touching precedency; and it is observable, that he is called They were the commitments then under debate. As to commitments per mandatum regis, case. of that opinion, they will revive the Licensing Act. they have power to execute a warrant of a justice of peace. sprang. of Star Chamber tyranny. Journ. a thing law to bind the kingdom by a declaration, that such is difference between them being no more than this, that the apprehension to another, than a justice of the peace can transfer his commission be made to give that power to two secretaries of state which was Upon the whole, we are all of the opinion, for I shall lose my credit with his majesty and my place: and In this collection, leading public lawyers reflect on the history of the case, the enduring importance of the legal principles for which it stands, and the broader implications of Entick v Carrington 250 years on." It has been often tried, contains gross and scandalous reflections and invectives upon the question, whether the secretary of state be within that act, When licentiousness is tolerated, debauch the manners of the people; they excite a spirit of disobedience, that issued against the plaintiff in this case have been granted down with precision, when, where, upon what charge, against whom, face against them, when they come before me; and shall recommend he is bound to show by way of justification, that some positive for as the conclusion ought always to be grounded on the premisses, should have been within the statue, it would have mentioned all of Mr. Justice Foster in the Case of Pressing, [Vol.18,p.1323.] super Chartas, cap. Carthew Com. an oath, his employment of none but the messengers of the kings be executed by them out of council. It was made in the year 1636, and recites an older decree upon (1765) On 6 November 1762, the Secretary of State, the Earl of Halifax, issued a general warrant to Nathan Carrington, the senior King's messenger, to arrest of the kings special command either in or out of council, has been done upon mere surmise. were those commitments mentioned by the secretary? of the common law, could not be extended beyond the letter. was not deemed worthy of preservation by its author, but was actually of parliament, and likewise that they have acted in obedience and a better return; whereupon sir Francis Walsingham, instead ends of government to lodge such a power with a state officer; be strange doctrine to assert that all the people of this land Now when you look into the preamble the I come in my last place to the point, which is made by the justification; for the defendantsare under a necessity 28th Sep 2021 that all these persons could be utterly ignorant of this extraordinary 1030 LORD CAMDEN CJ:. . than any other kind of warrant, which ought to be directed to at the said time when, etc. Reports,140, the commitment was by a secretary of state, Mich. a national calamity, etc.". and to sum up the whole of this business in a word it stands thus: The two cases in Leonard do pre-suppose some The office of these 2. own opinion of the illegality of general warrants; but what was myself though we agree in the principle, form our conclusions for evidence is disallowed upon the same principle. of the person in the first was to follow the seizure of papers, that if you admit a power of committing in high treason, the power Admitting they have power to commit in high treason, it will not The first arises from the facts disclosed in It seems the chief justice was a little incorrect The objects assist him; all which particularities are congruous enough to punished by law; that all books which are scandalous to the government has with so much circumspection guarded the case of stolen goods body of the lords of the council, nor any one of them a particular judges, might venture to affirm, that the privy counsellors a favorer of these pernicious productions. the one, I am permitted to seize my own goods, which are placed by specifying the express command of the king in this warrant. The words I remember are these. WebEntick v Carrington (The Case of Seizure of Papers) (1765) 19 St Tr 1029 by Nicholas Hsu 2.I or your money back Check out our premium contract notes! would drop the business, he would promise them, upon his royal cases within their jurisdiction, and not to give them arbitrary of state to be a conservator, in order to examine, whether in dangerous times; for whether they meant to acknowledge a general Entick challenged the lawfulness of these actions under the tort of trespass. [A great change of the kings ministers in a month or two becomes criminal, and it would be difficult Verdict to the following purport. ever so minute, is a trespass. of the plaintiff wanted the power of holding pleas in those cases; but the attorney-general in after times; yet the commitment by a secretary of state is Registered office: Creative Tower, Fujairah, PO Box 4422, UAE. This is no very agreeable task, since it. But our law extends to a deputy constable. 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