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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... 3. " Rules addressed , " etc. , mean the same things as Blackstone's " rules prescribed " or Austin's " rules set , " and are open to the same criticism . Result summed up . Lecture able by a sovereign political OUR LAW IN ITS OLD HOME .
... 3. " Rules addressed , " etc. , mean the same things as Blackstone's " rules prescribed " or Austin's " rules set , " and are open to the same criticism . Result summed up . Lecture able by a sovereign political OUR LAW IN ITS OLD HOME .
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... mean the English and American system of law as distin- guished from all other legal systems , and particu- been and larly from the Roman or Civil law . It is a most remarkable fact that if one casts his eye over the map of the ...
... mean the English and American system of law as distin- guished from all other legal systems , and particu- been and larly from the Roman or Civil law . It is a most remarkable fact that if one casts his eye over the map of the ...
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... means , and for two hundred years has actually meant , that the judges are free from any 1 Markby , " Elements of Law , " § 90. 5 Harvard Law Review , 1892 , p . 252 , Professor Thayer's paper on " The Jury and its Development . ” 2 ...
... means , and for two hundred years has actually meant , that the judges are free from any 1 Markby , " Elements of Law , " § 90. 5 Harvard Law Review , 1892 , p . 252 , Professor Thayer's paper on " The Jury and its Development . ” 2 ...
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... means that the judges must be selected from the bar ; and until very recently the common law judges had to be of the degree or estate of serjeant - at - law , long the highest , and never in point of learning an inferior , rank in the ...
... means that the judges must be selected from the bar ; and until very recently the common law judges had to be of the degree or estate of serjeant - at - law , long the highest , and never in point of learning an inferior , rank in the ...
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... means a dwelling or abiding - place , and came in popular use to mean " a large lodging - house , hotel , house of entertain- ment " ( Skeats ' Dictionary ) ; " a house of entertainment for travel- lers " ( Johnson's Dictionary ) . The ...
... means a dwelling or abiding - place , and came in popular use to mean " a large lodging - house , hotel , house of entertain- ment " ( Skeats ' Dictionary ) ; " a house of entertainment for travel- lers " ( Johnson's Dictionary ) . 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.