Godden v Hales
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Godden v Hales
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Godden v Hales was a 1686 King's Bench case that was brought as a test case of the Test Acts, a series of penal laws in Restoration England that established religious tests for public office with explicitly anti-Catholic intentions. The case hinged on the king's supposedly inalienable prerogative to command the services of his subject, even contrary to acts of Parliament. Prior to the trial, six of the twelve royal judges, including the chief justice of the Common Pleas and the Chief Baron of th
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