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As easements were said to belong to the dominant estate , it followed that whoever possessed the land had a right of the same degree over what was incidental to it . The work has already gone through seven editions ; each successive edition , including the seventh , has been brought up to date , as the expression goes , by amending it so as to embody any change in or affecting the constitution which may have occurred since the last preceding edition . Courts , means , in the first place , that by no proceeding known to the law can the King be made personally responsible for any act done by him ; if ( to give an absurd example ) the King were himself to shoot the Premier through the head , no court in England could take cognisance of the act . Ministers who , after Supplies were voted and the Mutiny Act passed , should prorogue the House and keep office for months after the Government had ceased to retain the confidence of the Commons , might or might not incur grave unpopularity , but would not necessarily commit a breach of law . In explaining the succession which is worked out between buyer and seller for the purpose of creating a prescriptive right , such as a right of way over neighboring land to the land bought and sold , it was shown that one who , instead of purchasing the land , had wrongfully possessed himself of it by force , would not be treated as a successor , and would get no benefit from the previous use of the way by his disseisee . But wills of land were only exceptionally allowed by custom until the reign of Henry VIII ., and as the main doctrines of conveyancing had been settled long before that time , we must look further back and to other sources for their explanation . During the Palmerstonian era , at any rate , a few of such men each possessed an authority inside and outside the House which is hardly claimed by any member now-a-days who neither has nor is expected to obtain a seat in any Cabinet . The first is appropriate to 1884 , the second is appropriate to 1914 - date did intend to retain for the Imperial Parliament , and the Imperial Government as representing such Parliament , a real and effective control over the action of the ministry and the legislature of each self-governing colony in so far as that control was not palpably inconsistent with independence as regards the management of strictly local affairs . And no doubt the referendum , if ever established in England , may have the effect , which it already has in Switzerland , of making it possible that a minister or a Cabinet , supported on the whole by the electorate , shall retain office honestly and openly , though some proposal made by the Prime Minister and his colleagues and assented to by both Houses of Parliament is , through the referendum , condemned by the electorate . Under the referendum an elector may begin to find it possible to vote for or against a given law in accordance with his real view as to its merits or demerits , without being harassed through the knowledge that if he votes against a law which his conscience and his judgment condemns , he will also be voting that A , whom he deems the fittest man in England to be Prime Minister , shall cease to hold office , and that B , whom the elector happens to distrust , shall at once become Prime Minister . Some further of the laws of the constitution , such , for example , as the law regulating the descent of the Crown , which were at one time unwritten or common law , have now become written or This difference will at bottom be found to depend upon the degree of directness with which the violation of a given constitutional maxim brings the wrongdoer into conflict with the law of the land . It assuredly is to increase the power of any party which possesses a parliamentary majority , i.e ., a majority , however got together , of the House of Commons , and , finally , to place the control of legislation , and indeed the whole government of the country , in the hands of the Cabinet which is in England at once the only instrument through which a dominant party can exercise its power , and the only body in the state which can lead and control the parliamentary majority of which the Cabinet is the organ . / 2 / The defendant accordingly over and set up a release . Now all the ideas which are most dear to constitutional reformers or innovators in 1914 lead to schemes of more or less merit for giving full expression in the matter of legislation to public opinion , i.e. for ensuring that any law passed by Parliament shall be popular , or at lowest not unpopular . The result of a state of things which is not yet fully recognised inside or outside Parliament is that the Cabinet , under a leader who has fully studied and mastered the arts of modern parliamentary warfare , can defy , on matters of the highest importance , the possible or certain will of the nation .