The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 22Frederick Pollock Stevens and Sons, 1906 - Law |
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... accepted . We hope to be able to report before long on the new scheme of the Law Society here , which marks a considerable advance on anything hitherto done in England . The following papers in the newly issued vol . xix of the Transac ...
... accepted . We hope to be able to report before long on the new scheme of the Law Society here , which marks a considerable advance on anything hitherto done in England . The following papers in the newly issued vol . xix of the Transac ...
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... accepted as binding between nations , and the international law sought to be applied must , like anything else , be proved by satisfactory evidence , which must show either that the particular proposition put forward has been recognized ...
... accepted as binding between nations , and the international law sought to be applied must , like anything else , be proved by satisfactory evidence , which must show either that the particular proposition put forward has been recognized ...
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... accepted as binding between nations , ' or even to what had been ' so widely and generally accepted that it could hardly be supposed that any civilized state would repudiate it . ' As chancellor , he was the principal constitutional ...
... accepted as binding between nations , ' or even to what had been ' so widely and generally accepted that it could hardly be supposed that any civilized state would repudiate it . ' As chancellor , he was the principal constitutional ...
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... accepted or the estate is fully administered the pecuniary result is , as a rule , far more beneficial to the creditors in the case of a deed of arrangement than where a receiving order is made . The Report contradicts the statement in ...
... accepted or the estate is fully administered the pecuniary result is , as a rule , far more beneficial to the creditors in the case of a deed of arrangement than where a receiving order is made . The Report contradicts the statement in ...
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... accepted a good many of these rules and has thus differed from the Mitakshara , but others are rejected on account of the introduction of principles of religion , foreign to the scope of the law of inheritance as it originally found ...
... accepted a good many of these rules and has thus differed from the Mitakshara , but others are rejected on account of the introduction of principles of religion , foreign to the scope of the law of inheritance as it originally found ...
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Page 411 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 23 - It may not be unworthy of remark, that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation...
Page 406 - ... mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have, or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, etc., or any part thereof.
Page 409 - It is perhaps correct to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.
Page 414 - For though in particular cases the repugnance of the law to dissolve the obligations of matrimonial cohabitation may operate with great severity upon individuals, yet it must be carefully remembered that the general happiness of the married life is secured by its indissolubility. When people understand that they must live together, except for a very few reasons known to the law, they learn to soften by mutual accommodation that yoke which they know they cannot shake off; they become good husbands,...
Page 324 - ... the rule against perpetuities. "The rule against perpetuities is thus stated : 'No interest subject to a condition precedent is good unless the condition must be fulfilled, if at all, within twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.
Page 21 - He is entrusted with making the treaty of peace: he may yield up the conquest, or retain it upon what terms he pleases. These powers no man ever disputed, neither has it hitherto been controverted that the King might change part or the whole of the law or political form of government of a conquered dominion.
Page 324 - No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.
Page 14 - But any doctrine so invoked must be one really accepted as binding between nations, and the international law sought to be applied must, like anything else, be proved by satisfactory evidence which must...
Page 112 - Frauds does not prevent the proof of a fraud ; and that it is a fraud on the part of a person to whom land is conveyed as a trustee, and who knows it was so conveyed, to deny the trust and claim the land himself. Consequently, notwithstanding the statute, it is competent for a person claiming land conveyed to another to prove by parol evidence that it was so conveyed upon trust for the claimant, and that the grantee, knowing the facts, is denying the trust and relying upon the form of conveyance...