Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Τόμος 1A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, 1791 |
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... mean time it has been the peculiar lot of our admirable system of laws , to be neglected , and even unknown , by all but one practical profeffion ; though built upon the foundest foundations , and approved by the ex- perience of ages ...
... mean time it has been the peculiar lot of our admirable system of laws , to be neglected , and even unknown , by all but one practical profeffion ; though built upon the foundest foundations , and approved by the ex- perience of ages ...
Σελίδα 21
... means the merit of those m There cannot be a stronger instance of the abfurd and fuperftitious veneration that was paid to these laws , than that the moft learned writers of the times thought they could not form a perfect character ...
... means the merit of those m There cannot be a stronger instance of the abfurd and fuperftitious veneration that was paid to these laws , than that the moft learned writers of the times thought they could not form a perfect character ...
Σελίδα 22
... mean was the fixing the court of common pleas , the grand tribunal for difputes of property , to be held in one certain spot ; that the feat of ordinary justice might be permanent and notorious to all the nation . Formerly that , in ...
... mean was the fixing the court of common pleas , the grand tribunal for difputes of property , to be held in one certain spot ; that the feat of ordinary justice might be permanent and notorious to all the nation . Formerly that , in ...
Σελίδα 26
... mean , as are intended for the profeffion : the rest of our gentry , ( not to fay our nobility alfo ) having ufually retired to their eftates , or vifited foreign kingdoms , or entered upon public life , without any inftruction in the ...
... mean , as are intended for the profeffion : the rest of our gentry , ( not to fay our nobility alfo ) having ufually retired to their eftates , or vifited foreign kingdoms , or entered upon public life , without any inftruction in the ...
Σελίδα 30
... means the time of election fhall fall within any vacation , in which cafe it be deferred to the first week in the next full term . And that before any convocation shall be held for fuch election , or for any other matter relating to Mr ...
... means the time of election fhall fall within any vacation , in which cafe it be deferred to the first week in the next full term . And that before any convocation shall be held for fuch election , or for any other matter relating to Mr ...
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Σελίδα 400 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Σελίδα 100 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Σελίδα 147 - That all writs, processes, commissions, patents, grants, and other things, which now run in the name and style of the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of Parliament...
Σελίδα 121 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Σελίδα 231 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Σελίδα 436 - ... or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture.
Σελίδα 159 - It will not therefore be expected that we should enter into the examination of this law, with any degree of minuteness: since, as the same learned author assures us (o), it is much better to be learned out of the rolls of parliament and other records, and by precedents and continual experience, than can be expressed by any one man.
Σελίδα 121 - Political, therefore, or civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no farther) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public.
Σελίδα 300 - A man is not an idiot, if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.
Σελίδα 132 - But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left- to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great, as to render this measure expedient...