The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volumes 14-15Butterworths, 1863 - Law |
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... fair , partly unfair , the evidence was gathered together which was considered sufficient to demon- strate that Mrs. Maclachlan alone was guilty of the murder of Jessie McPherson , and after eight days ' confinement , the old man , Mr ...
... fair , partly unfair , the evidence was gathered together which was considered sufficient to demon- strate that Mrs. Maclachlan alone was guilty of the murder of Jessie McPherson , and after eight days ' confinement , the old man , Mr ...
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... fair and temperate . His speech was disfigured by ludicrous spurts of bombast , but it treated the evidence with considerable impartiality for a Scotch prosecutor , and was vastly more judicial than the charge of Lord Deas . But there ...
... fair and temperate . His speech was disfigured by ludicrous spurts of bombast , but it treated the evidence with considerable impartiality for a Scotch prosecutor , and was vastly more judicial than the charge of Lord Deas . But there ...
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... fair considera tion of a doubt in her favour ; not one suggestion that any fact renders her guilt a matter of the least doubt . On the contrary , facts that in our humble opinion tell strongly in her favour , are either quietly ignored ...
... fair considera tion of a doubt in her favour ; not one suggestion that any fact renders her guilt a matter of the least doubt . On the contrary , facts that in our humble opinion tell strongly in her favour , are either quietly ignored ...
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... fair bargain with the Dean and Chapter ; and with a view to enable themselves to treat with the latter without the inter- vention of trustees , they procured , in 1768 , a royal charter of incorporation . On the expiration of their old ...
... fair bargain with the Dean and Chapter ; and with a view to enable themselves to treat with the latter without the inter- vention of trustees , they procured , in 1768 , a royal charter of incorporation . On the expiration of their old ...
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... fair evidence that the examinations were a good test of the candidates ' abilities . As to the immediate examinations , four graduates presented themselves at the Easter Term and passed , and at the Trinity Term four graduates and eight ...
... fair evidence that the examinations were a good test of the candidates ' abilities . As to the immediate examinations , four graduates presented themselves at the Easter Term and passed , and at the Trinity Term four graduates and eight ...
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Page 337 - And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by the said confederation are submitted to them : And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 337 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
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Page 196 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 338 - ... the transcendent law of nature and of nature's God, which declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
Page 137 - When Justinian ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
Page 131 - MACKENZIE. Studies in Roman Law. With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Page 214 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.