The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Volumen4Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1833 |
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Página 32 - All this is true, if time stood still, which contrariwise moveth so round that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Página 32 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator, and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Página 32 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long gone together are, as it were, confederate
Página 18 - The primary and perennial sources of all social evil are ignorance, and want of culture. These are not reached by the best contrived system of political checks, necessary as such checks are for other purposes. There is also an unfortunate peculiarity attending these evils. Of all calamities, they are those of which the persons suffering from them are apt to be least aware. Of their bodily wants and ailments, mankind are generally conscious ; but the want of the mind, the want of being wiser and better,...
Página 9 - Universities are their property, to deprive them of which would be as much an act of confiscation as to rob a landowner of his estate. Their property! In what system of legislative ethics, or even of positive law, is an estate in the hands of trustees the property of the trustees ? It is the property of the cestui que trust: of the person, or of the body of persons, for whose benefit the trust is created. This, in the case of a national endowment, is the entire people.
Página 55 - ... execution, I have seen them treat it with levity. I once saw a man, for whom I had been concerned, the day before his execution, and on my offering him condolence, and expressing my sorrow at his situation, he replied with an air of indifference, * Players at bowls must expect rubbers.
Página 155 - Building ; the behaviour and conduct of the respective Officers ; the treatment and condition of the Prisoners ; the amount of their Earnings, and the Expenses of the Establishment, during the Year 1830.
Página 114 - Distemper amongst horned Cattle, and for the more frequent Return of Writs in the Counties Palatine of Chester and Lancaster; and for ascertaining the Method of levying Writs of Execution against the Inhabitants of Hundreds; and for allowing Quakers to make Affirmation where an Oath is or shall be required.
Página 12 - As long as the bread is not taken from any of our fellow-creatures, we care not though the whole English dictionary had to beg in the streets. Let those who think it a robbery for the nation to resume what we say is its own, tell us whose it is; let them inform us, what human creatures it belongs to; not what letters and syllables.
Página 148 - To those who have observed the inconveniences which, in other systems of judicature, are found to flow from the want of fixed forms of action, it will scarcely be doubtful that they are an invention of real merit and importance. They tend most materially to secure that certainty in the right of action itself which is one of the chief objects of jurisprudence; they form a valuable check to vagueness and prolixity of statement; and in this and other respects they are essential to the convenient application...