The American Jurist, Volume 9Freeman & Bolles, 1833 - Law |
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... the collection , as a repository of legal princi- ples . After this operation , if a legislative sanction were given to the whole compilation , this would be doing for the 8 [ Jan. Written and Unwritten Systems of Laws .
... the collection , as a repository of legal princi- ples . After this operation , if a legislative sanction were given to the whole compilation , this would be doing for the 8 [ Jan. Written and Unwritten Systems of Laws .
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the whole compilation , this would be doing for the common law nearly the same office that was performed for the Roman law by Justinian . Such a compilation would correspond in sub- stance to the Pandects . This , so far from being ...
the whole compilation , this would be doing for the common law nearly the same office that was performed for the Roman law by Justinian . Such a compilation would correspond in sub- stance to the Pandects . This , so far from being ...
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... whole body , as we now have it , is composed of separate and independent cases ; of particular applications ; and not of general principles . The whole piece can only be formed like mosaic by arranging and putting to- gether these ...
... whole body , as we now have it , is composed of separate and independent cases ; of particular applications ; and not of general principles . The whole piece can only be formed like mosaic by arranging and putting to- gether these ...
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... whole subject of legislation , or to be a complete body of law . It professed to be merely supplemental to the preexisting local and provincial customs . The consequence was that the local law was every where paramount to the general ...
... whole subject of legislation , or to be a complete body of law . It professed to be merely supplemental to the preexisting local and provincial customs . The consequence was that the local law was every where paramount to the general ...
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... era , which gave it birth . It was thought to be within the limits of possibility to reduce the whole body of law to a series of abstract propositions so plain and certain 14 [ Jan. Written and Unwritten Systems of Laws .
... era , which gave it birth . It was thought to be within the limits of possibility to reduce the whole body of law to a series of abstract propositions so plain and certain 14 [ Jan. Written and Unwritten Systems of Laws .
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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...