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   From: dolfboek@hotmail.com   
      
   Although it was established by Section 71 - DOMINION within the   
   AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION in 1901: "The judicial power of the Commonwealth   
   shall be vested in a Federal Supreme Court, to be called the High Court   
   of Australia, and in such other federal courts as the Parliament   
   creates, and in such other courts as it invests with federal   
   jurisdiction.   The High Court shall consist of a Chief Justice, and so   
   many other Justices, not less than two, as the Parliament prescribes."   
      
   The first sitting of the High Court took place in the Banco Court of the   
   Supreme Court building in Melbourne on 6 OCTOBER 1903. It was a   
   distinguished Bench, comprising three people who had been prominent in   
   the Federal movement.  However the High Court of Australia did not   
   become the final court of appeal in the Australian judicial system until   
   1975 when the Australian Parliament passed the Privy Council (Appeals   
   from the High Court) Act 1974. Previously this power belonged to the   
   British Privy Council. This meant that the British Privy Council could –   
   and did – overturn decisions of the High Court of Australia on appeal.   
      
   In 1900 the British Parliament only agreed to the Australian   
   Constitution if the Privy Council remained the final court of appeal in   
   Australia. The Privy Council (Limitations of Appeals) Act 1968 stopped   
   appeals to the Privy Council for constitutional and federal matters. The   
   1975 Act confirmed the independence of Australia’s judicial system by   
   abolishing all appeals from the High Court to the Privy Council.   
      
   It was not until the Australia Acts of 1986, 85 years after Federation,   
   that the right of appeal to the Privy Council from state courts was removed.   
      
   WORDING OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OATH   
   When a new Member of the Privy Council is inducted in the presence of   
   The King, they are required to take an Oath, or make Solemn Affirmation.   
   In its current form, the wording of the Oath dates back to Tudor times.   
   At a meeting where new Members are inducted, they are not required to   
   repeat the words of the Oath, simply to respond “I doâ€� at the conclusion   
   of the reading, which is done by the Clerk of the   
   Council.   
      
   THE FORM OF WORDS FOR THE PRIVY COUNCIL OATH IS BELOW:   
      
   â€œYou do swear by Almighty God to be a true and faithful Servant unto The   
   King’s Majesty as one of His Majesty’s Privy Council. You will not know   
   or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done or spoken   
   against His Majesty’s Person, Honour, Crown or Dignity Royal, but you   
   will lett and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power, and   
   either cause it to be revealed to His Majesty Himself, or to such of His   
   Privy Council as shall advertise His Majesty of the same. You will in   
   all things to be moved, treated and debated in Council, faithfully and   
   truly declare your Mind and Opinion, according to your Heart and   
   Conscience; and will keep secret all matters committed and revealed unto   
   you, or that shall be treated of secretly in Council. And if any of the   
   said Treaties or Counsels shall touch any of the Counsellors you will   
   not reveal it unto them but will keep the same until such time as, by   
   the consent of His Majesty or of the Council, Publication shall be made   
   thereof. You will to your uttermost bear Faith and Allegiance unto the   
   King’s Majesty; and will assist and defend all Jurisdictions,   
   Pre-eminences, and Authorities, granted to His Majesty and annexed to   
   the Crown by Acts of Parliament, or otherwise, against all Foreign   
   Princes, Persons, Prelates, States, or Potentates. And generally in all   
   things you will do as a faithful and true Servant ought to do to His   
   Majesty. So help you God.â€�   
      
   {@30: Sup: 68 - DIMMING: MENG (#1397); Ego: 25 - CONTENTION: CHENG (#1242)}   
      
   ONTIC TOTAL: #329   
   DEME TOTAL: #118   
      
   #1397 as [#80, #10, #200, #300, #5, #400, #200, #1, #200, #1] /   
   #1751 as [#80, #10, #200, #300, #5, #400, #200, #1, #50, #300, #5, #200]   
   = pisteúŠ  
    (G4100): {UMBRA: #1795 % #41 = #32} 1) to think to be true, to   
   be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; 1a) of the thing   
   believed; 1a1) to credit, have confidence; 1b) in a moral or religious   
   reference; 1b1) used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a   
   *MAN* *IS* *IMPELLED* *BY* *A* *CERTAIN* *INNER* *AND* *HIGHER*   
   *PREROGATIVE* *AND* *LAW* *OF* *SOUL*; 1b2) to trust in Jesus or God as   
   able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith;   
   1b3) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith; 1c)   
   to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity; 1c1) to be intrusted with   
   a thing;		   
      
   #1242 as [#20, #1, #400, #600, #1, #200, #9, #1, #10] = kaucháomai   
   (G2744): {UMBRA: #1143 % #41 = #36} 1) to glory (whether with reason or   
   without); 2) to glory on account of a thing; 3) to glory in a thing;		   
      
   #335 - ONTIC TOTAL: #329 as [#5, #30, #70, #3, #10, #200, #9, #8] /   
   #430 - ONTIC TOTAL: #329 as [#5, #30, #70, #3, #10, #200, #9, #8, #40,   
   #5, #50] = logízomai (G3049): {UMBRA: #241 % #41 = #36} 1) to reckon,   
   count, compute, calculate, count over; 1a) to take into account, to make   
   an account of; 1a1) metaph. to pass to one's account, to impute; 1a2) a   
   thing is reckoned as or to be something, i.e. as availing for or   
   equivalent to something, as having the like force and weight; 1b) to   
   number among, reckon with; 1c) to reckon or account; 2) to reckon   
   inward, count up or weigh the reasons, to deliberate; 3) by reckoning up   
   all the reasons, to gather or infer; 3a) to consider, take into account,   
   weigh, meditate on; 3b) to suppose, deem, judge; 3c) to determine,   
   purpose, decide;   
      
   #669 - DEME TOTAL: #118 as [#2, #40, #6, #70, #90, #6, #400, #10, #5,   
   #40] = môwʻêtsâh (H4156): {UMBRA: #211 % #41 = #6} 1) counsel, plan,   
   principal, device;   
      
   During the reign of the House of Normandy, the English monarch was   
   advised by a curia regis (Latin for "royal court"), which consisted of   
   magnates, clergy and officers of the Crown. This body originally   
   concerned itself with advising the sovereign on legislation,   
   administration and justice. certain times, the curia was enlarged by a   
   general summons of magnates (the "great council" or magnum concilium in   
   Latin), but as a smaller council the curia was in constant session and   
   in direct contact with the king.   
      
   Originally, important legal cases were heard coram rege (Latin for "in   
   the presence of the king himself"). But the growth of the royal justice   
   system under Henry II (r. 1154–1189) required specialization, and the   
   judicial functions of the curia regis were delegated to two courts   
   sitting at Westminster Hall: the Court of King's Bench and the Court of   
   Common Pleas.   
      
   By 1237, the curia regis had formally split into two separate   
      
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