Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the Work, Τόμος 1S. Sweet, 1836 |
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Σελίδα xxvii
... particular request , performed the funeral service , as a public testimony of his personal regard , and highest esteem . The fame of Sir William Blackstone as a commentator on the laws of England has rendered his character as a judge ...
... particular request , performed the funeral service , as a public testimony of his personal regard , and highest esteem . The fame of Sir William Blackstone as a commentator on the laws of England has rendered his character as a judge ...
Σελίδα xxviii
... particular society or neighbourhood he was connected with ; possessing a sound judgment , with a clear and analytical head , and an unremitting perseverance in pursuing whatever he thought right , he was enabled to carry many beneficial ...
... particular society or neighbourhood he was connected with ; possessing a sound judgment , with a clear and analytical head , and an unremitting perseverance in pursuing whatever he thought right , he was enabled to carry many beneficial ...
Σελίδα xxxviii
... Particular laws . · · 67 3. General customs , or the common law properly so called , are founded upon immemorial universal usage , whereof judicial decisions are the evidence ; which decisions are preserved in the public records ...
... Particular laws . · · 67 3. General customs , or the common law properly so called , are founded upon immemorial universal usage , whereof judicial decisions are the evidence ; which decisions are preserved in the public records ...
Σελίδα xlvi
... particular cases , to supply the office of sheriff . 346 4. Justices of the peace are magistrates in each county , sta- tutably qualified , and commissioned by the king's majesty ; with authority to conserve the peace ; to hear and ...
... particular cases , to supply the office of sheriff . 346 4. Justices of the peace are magistrates in each county , sta- tutably qualified , and commissioned by the king's majesty ; with authority to conserve the peace ; to hear and ...
Σελίδα lvii
... particular uses in all con- siderable situations of life . Some conjectures will then be offered with regard to the causes of neglecting this useful study : to which will be subjoined a few reflections on the culiar propriety of ...
... particular uses in all con- siderable situations of life . Some conjectures will then be offered with regard to the causes of neglecting this useful study : to which will be subjoined a few reflections on the culiar propriety of ...
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Σελίδα 210 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Σελίδα 439 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Σελίδα 412 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Σελίδα 157 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Σελίδα 234 - And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the kings and queens who shall ascend the throne of this realm ought to administer the government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...
Σελίδα 41 - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Σελίδα 235 - 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 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 60 - that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity,' did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street in a fit.
Σελίδα 67 - This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which for the most part affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction.
Σελίδα 58 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.