 I am loth to quote, yet inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Empire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 4411846Full view - About this book
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...men:—" Inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the Civil Law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the...principles of our law are borrowed from the Civil Law, therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things."—(12 Mod. 482). Seel P. Wms. 10; Ibid. 267;... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - International law - 1843 - 108 pages
...— " Inasmuch as the laws of all nat1ons are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the...principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law, therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things." —12 Mod. 482. 4 On a closer examination,... | |
 | sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (1st bart.) - Great Britain - 1843 - 88 pages
...the ruins of the Civil Law, as all " governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Em" pire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are " borrowed out of the Civil Law, therefore grounded upon the " same reason in many things." Lastly, in the Courts... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...Justice Holt and Sir William Jones. The former declared, in the case of Lane v. Cotton, 12 Mod. 482, "that the principles of our law are borrowed from the Civil Law, and therefore in many things grounded on the same reason." The latter * has remarked, " that though... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...— " Inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the Civil Law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the...excite the mind of the beginner can be placed in bis handa. things ; though," he adds, in the true spirit of an English lawyer, " I am loth to quote it."... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 614 pages
...— "Inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the...principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law, therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things." — 12 Mod. Rep. 482. ments and disagreements,... | |
 | George Long - History - 1847 - 128 pages
...grasping cupidity, and the blood-stained career of the conquering republic. all governments are sprung out of the Roman empire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the Civil law, and therefore governed by the same reason in many things. And all this may be, though the common law... | |
 | Edwin Palmer - Roman law - 1847 - 78 pages
...confirmation of our debts to the .Romans, may he cited Lord CJ Holt, [quoted by Spence, vol. ip 286, note.] "It must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law, and therefore governed by the same reason in many things :" and Wood, who in his Preface to a " New... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...— " Inasmuch as the laws of nil nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of ihe civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman empire, it must be owned that ¡he principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law, therefore grounded upon the same reason... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - Ecclesiastical law - 1848 - 176 pages
...the ruins of the Civil Law, as all " governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Em" pire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are " borrowed out of the Civil Law, therefore grounded upon the " same reason in many things.1' •j• See Lyndwode's... | |
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