 | 1776 - 632 pages
...of any fubftfquent judge to alter, or vary from,according to his private fentiments, he being fworu to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and cuiloms of the land ; not delegated to pronounce' a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one."... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...not in the bread of any fubfequer.t judge to alter or vary from, according to his private femiments : he being fworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but « cap. 8. « ScJJ. review of Tith. c 8. according to the known laws and cuftoms of the land ; not... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...permanent rule, which it is not in the bread of any fubfequent judge to alter or vary from -according to his private fentiments : he being fworn to determine, not according to his own private judgement, but according to the known laws and cuftoms of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...permanent rule, which it is not in the breaft ot any fubfequent judge to sher or vary from, according to his private fentiments : he being fworn to determine,...private judgment, but according to the known laws and, culloms of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one."... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...predecessors ;" all felt themselves bound •by them. No one thought himself at liberty to "decide according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land." This extraordinary unanimity affords the highest evidence of their industry as... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Basil Montagu, John MacArthur - Bankruptcy - 1830 - 520 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments; he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 886 pages
...always therefore be in the power of the judge, notwithstanding the oath which we are told he takes, " to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and cusióme of the land." To relieve himself froai embarrassing precedents which may be cited, he has... | |
 | 1835 - 858 pages
...always therefore be in the power of the judge, notwithstanding the oath which we are told he takes, " to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land." To relieve himself from embarrassing precedents which may be cited, he has only... | |
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... opinion; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from according... 
