The American Jurist, Volume 9Freeman & Bolles, 1833 - Law |
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... reasons and illustrating its spirit . They constitute the law itself ; they are the corpus juris , as much so as the Pandects of Justinian were of the Roman law . Each particular decision makes the rule for all similar cases , unless ...
... reasons and illustrating its spirit . They constitute the law itself ; they are the corpus juris , as much so as the Pandects of Justinian were of the Roman law . Each particular decision makes the rule for all similar cases , unless ...
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... reason- ing , relies upon it as forming a sort of complement of the text . Instead of spreading itself out into more than a million of distinct articles , containing as many special rules , in the vain hope of giving a special rule for ...
... reason- ing , relies upon it as forming a sort of complement of the text . Instead of spreading itself out into more than a million of distinct articles , containing as many special rules , in the vain hope of giving a special rule for ...
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... reason for the law , nor define the terms which it uses . It is expressed in the smallest number of words that will clearly give the meaning of the law maker . It is presumed that the professors of the law understand the language in ...
... reason for the law , nor define the terms which it uses . It is expressed in the smallest number of words that will clearly give the meaning of the law maker . It is presumed that the professors of the law understand the language in ...
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... reasons when he pays after he knows of the judgment in his favor . No other motive can be assigned for his paying it , than the internal conviction that it is justly due , and that the equity of his own conscience will not permit him to ...
... reasons when he pays after he knows of the judgment in his favor . No other motive can be assigned for his paying it , than the internal conviction that it is justly due , and that the equity of his own conscience will not permit him to ...
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... reasons as a payment made during the pendency of a suit , and it could with no more certainty be inferred that the payment was an acknow- ledgement of the debt in one case than in the other . But a payment while a suit is pending may be ...
... reasons as a payment made during the pendency of a suit , and it could with no more certainty be inferred that the payment was an acknow- ledgement of the debt in one case than in the other . But a payment while a suit is pending may be ...
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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...