The American Jurist, Volume 9Freeman & Bolles, 1833 - Law |
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... claim the direct authority of making the law . But the ancient customs are supposed to furnish a rule of decision for every case that can by possibility occur . And if the precise rule is not found among the million of fragments , which ...
... claim the direct authority of making the law . But the ancient customs are supposed to furnish a rule of decision for every case that can by possibility occur . And if the precise rule is not found among the million of fragments , which ...
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... claim , in the eyes of the philosopher , as well as in those of the multitude , to the rank of a branch of knowledge resting on fixed principles . Its language was trilingual ; a composite of indifferent English , bad Latin , and worse ...
... claim , in the eyes of the philosopher , as well as in those of the multitude , to the rank of a branch of knowledge resting on fixed principles . Its language was trilingual ; a composite of indifferent English , bad Latin , and worse ...
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... claims upon many to be intrusted with their business , who have given no other secu- rity to the public for their having qualified themselves for a most important and arduous profession , than that of having paid a certain sum of money ...
... claims upon many to be intrusted with their business , who have given no other secu- rity to the public for their having qualified themselves for a most important and arduous profession , than that of having paid a certain sum of money ...
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... claim a liberal and enlightened support , than that which enlarges the means and multiplies the induce- ments of men , destined for the profession of the law , to be learned , moral , and elevated , in all their opinions and conduct ...
... claim a liberal and enlightened support , than that which enlarges the means and multiplies the induce- ments of men , destined for the profession of the law , to be learned , moral , and elevated , in all their opinions and conduct ...
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... claim to set off a bill of exchange , under 6 Geo . 4. c . 16 , s . 56 , it was objected , that at the time of the commis- sion , the defendant was not the holder , but that it was in the hands of a third person , to whom he had passed ...
... claim to set off a bill of exchange , under 6 Geo . 4. c . 16 , s . 56 , it was objected , that at the time of the commis- sion , the defendant was not the holder , but that it was in the hands of a third person , to whom he had passed ...
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Page 270 - ... the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Page 278 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 278 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Page 441 - ... to compel the discovery of any property or thing in action, belonging to the defendant, and of any property, money, or thing in action, due to him, or held in trust for him...
Page 278 - It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy.
Page 274 - ... this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 251 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 340 - ... such power to punish contempts shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person in their presence, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice...
Page 274 - That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 267 - ... be preserved entire without endangering the stability of the general confederacy ; to remind them how indispensably necessary it is to establish the Federal Union on a fixed and permanent basis, and on principles acceptable to all its respective members...