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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... original form . They are just what they are , and just what they purport to be , and nothing more , namely , discourses to a class of law students , given largely - - to inspire a patriotic and just regard for the laws.
... original form . They are just what they are , and just what they purport to be , and nothing more , namely , discourses to a class of law students , given largely - - to inspire a patriotic and just regard for the laws.
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... original institution of the Inns of Court nowhere precisely appears . . . . They are voluntary societies which have for ages sub- mitted to government analogous to that of the seminaries of learning . " Lord Mansfield in Rex v . Gray's ...
... original institution of the Inns of Court nowhere precisely appears . . . . They are voluntary societies which have for ages sub- mitted to government analogous to that of the seminaries of learning . " Lord Mansfield in Rex v . Gray's ...
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... original West- minster Hall was at that time more than a century old . What thoughtful lawyer or law student can survey them with indifference ? Dr. Johnson , in Dr. John- a familiar and noted passage respecting famous passage places ...
... original West- minster Hall was at that time more than a century old . What thoughtful lawyer or law student can survey them with indifference ? Dr. Johnson , in Dr. John- a familiar and noted passage respecting famous passage places ...
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... original of what we now know as the Inns of Court existed , although we are not advised as to their constitu- tion , mode of government , or the nature of the distinction , if it then existed , between the Inns of Court and the Inns of ...
... original of what we now know as the Inns of Court existed , although we are not advised as to their constitu- tion , mode of government , or the nature of the distinction , if it then existed , between the Inns of Court and the Inns of ...
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... " 1892 , p . 66. Such facts as the above are interesting , moreover , as showing how closely our laws and practice were modelled after the English original . Indeed , Lecture ( 3 ) The lowest degree in the ranks OUR LAW IN ITS OLD HOME .
... " 1892 , p . 66. Such facts as the above are interesting , moreover , as showing how closely our laws and practice were modelled after the English original . Indeed , Lecture ( 3 ) The lowest degree in the ranks OUR LAW IN ITS OLD HOME .
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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.