The American Jurist, Volume 9Freeman & Bolles, 1833 - Law |
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... taken of the common law to be correct , so far from presenting an objection to codification , it furnishes one of the strongest arguments in its favor . If the law has already grown to such an unwieldy and unmanageable bulk , it is ...
... taken of the common law to be correct , so far from presenting an objection to codification , it furnishes one of the strongest arguments in its favor . If the law has already grown to such an unwieldy and unmanageable bulk , it is ...
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... taken from the works of Pothier , adopting not only his doctrine but the order , the divisions , and often the words as they stand in his treatises . Dissertation sur la vie et les Ouvrages de Pothier p . 114 . The authors of the code ...
... taken from the works of Pothier , adopting not only his doctrine but the order , the divisions , and often the words as they stand in his treatises . Dissertation sur la vie et les Ouvrages de Pothier p . 114 . The authors of the code ...
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... taken for granted that the judicial tribunals are familiar with the prin- ciples of natural justice and universal equity , and it leaves them to interpret and apply the general rule in conformity with these principles ; not the ...
... taken for granted that the judicial tribunals are familiar with the prin- ciples of natural justice and universal equity , and it leaves them to interpret and apply the general rule in conformity with these principles ; not the ...
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... taken up hastily . There are some branches of the law which might be reduced to a code without much labor ; as for instance the law merchant and the maritime law . These have grown up in an enlightened age . The prin- ciples are plain ...
... taken up hastily . There are some branches of the law which might be reduced to a code without much labor ; as for instance the law merchant and the maritime law . These have grown up in an enlightened age . The prin- ciples are plain ...
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... Taken all in all he ( Mr. P. ) was the ablest man in debate I ever met with . He had not indeed the poetical fancy of Mr. Henry - his sublime imagination , his lofty and overwhelming diction ; but he was cool , smooth , and persuasive ...
... Taken all in all he ( Mr. P. ) was the ablest man in debate I ever met with . He had not indeed the poetical fancy of Mr. Henry - his sublime imagination , his lofty and overwhelming diction ; but he was cool , smooth , and persuasive ...
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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...