The Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered Before Yale UniversityLittle, Brown, 1894 - 431 páginas "Being a series of lectures delivered before Yale University."--T.p. |
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... duty to disobey it ; but it is nevertheless law , and this disobedience , virtuous though it may be , is nothing less than rebellion " ( Markby , “ Elements of Law , " 2d ed . , London , 1889 , § 12 , p . 4 ) . The justness of these ...
... duty to disobey it ; but it is nevertheless law , and this disobedience , virtuous though it may be , is nothing less than rebellion " ( Markby , “ Elements of Law , " 2d ed . , London , 1889 , § 12 , p . 4 ) . The justness of these ...
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... Duty is the correlative of right , and duty in a legal sense implies a sanction or amenability to sanction , which sanction it is the function of the judicial tribunals to apply and en- force . Whatever rights and duties they thus recog ...
... Duty is the correlative of right , and duty in a legal sense implies a sanction or amenability to sanction , which sanction it is the function of the judicial tribunals to apply and en- force . Whatever rights and duties they thus recog ...
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... duties ture , and originate , and how these are evolved , I hide my diminished head , and confess my inability satisfac- torily to formulate an answer . Law is not ethics , it is true ; but except so far as laws are abitrary or ...
... duties ture , and originate , and how these are evolved , I hide my diminished head , and confess my inability satisfac- torily to formulate an answer . Law is not ethics , it is true ; but except so far as laws are abitrary or ...
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... duties on which the organic , permanent justice of the State rests . tional lim- In considering , therefore , what law is , under Constitu the limitations of our written constitutions , Fed- itations as eral and State , it is first of ...
... duties on which the organic , permanent justice of the State rests . tional lim- In considering , therefore , what law is , under Constitu the limitations of our written constitutions , Fed- itations as eral and State , it is first of ...
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... duties arise , only part of which take the form of a legislative command.1 It is obviously with such relations that the legis- lator has necessarily to deal whenever he enters upon the work of legislation ; and we shall see in the ...
... duties arise , only part of which take the form of a legislative command.1 It is obviously with such relations that the legis- lator has necessarily to deal whenever he enters upon the work of legislation ; and we shall see in the ...
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Página 41 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 26 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 97 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th
Página 109 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great Hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the Just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Página 100 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 150 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 227 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Página 130 - ... that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Página 100 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.