The American Jurist: And Law Magazine, Volume 27Freeman & Bolles, 1843 - Law |
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Page 83 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 140 - A libel is the malicious defamation of a person made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy tending to provoke him to wrath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to deprive him of the benefits of public confidence and social intercourse...
Page 380 - evidence,' In legal acceptation, Includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which Is submitted to Investigation, Is established or disproved.
Page 16 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage.
Page 115 - It is true, that it has been held in the Courts of this country, that American ships, offending against our laws, and foreign ships, in like manner, offending within our jurisdiction, may, afterwards, be pursued and seized upon the ocean, and rightfully brought into our ports for adjudication.
Page 16 - I am amazed at his Grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer, who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Page 382 - These, as well as the former, are the result of the general experience of a connection between certain facts or things, the one being usually found to be the companion, or the effect, of the other. The...
Page 345 - INQUIRY INTO THE VALIDITY OF THE BRITISH CLAIM TO A RIGHT OF VISITATION AND SEARCH of American vessels suspected to be engaged in the African Slave Trade. By Henry Wheaton, LL. D., Minister of the United States at the Court of Berlin. Author of " Elements of International Law,
Page 16 - Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble Lords the language of the noble Duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I...