Lemuel Shaw: Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of MassachusettsJohn Wilson and Son, University Press, 1885 - 82 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 62 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment : thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Σελίδα 80 - Iowa was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, because, admitting the constitution of the State to be a law of the State, within the meaning of the provision of the Constitution of the United States forbidding a State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, the only question was of its construction by the state court.
Σελίδα 55 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by.
Σελίδα 42 - But it is the great merit of the common law, that it is founded upon a comparatively few, broad, general principles of justice, fitness, and expediency, the correctness of which is generally acknowledged, and which at first are few and simple ; but which, carried out in their practical details, and adapted to extremely complicated cases of fact, give rise to many, and often perplexing questions...
Σελίδα 47 - The rule of law is when the fact of killing is proved to have been committed by the accused, and nothing further is shown, the presumption of law is that it is malicious and an act of murder. It follows therefore that in such cases the proof of matter of excuse or extenuation lies on the accused, and this may appear either from evidence adduced by the prosecution or evidence offered by the defendant.
Σελίδα 37 - And, finally, he must possess the perfect confidence of the community, that he bear not the sword in vain. To be honest, to be no respecter of persons, is not yet enough. He must be believed such. I should be glad so far to indulge an...
Σελίδα 53 - Almost within sight of the place where we now are, still stands a modest spire, marking the spot where a beloved father stood to minister the holy word of truth and hope and salvation to a numerous, beloved, and attached people, for almost half a century. Pious, pure, simple-hearted, devoted to and beloved by his people, never shall I cease to venerate his memory, or to love those who knew and loved him. I speak in the presence of some who knew him, and of many more, who, I doubt not, were taught...
Σελίδα 37 - ... not respect persons in judgment. He shall know nothing about the parties; everything about the case. He shall do everything for justice; nothing for himself; nothing for his friend; nothing for his patron; nothing for his sovereign. If, on one side, is the executive power, and the legislature, and the people — the sources of his...
Σελίδα 37 - People,— the sources of his honors, the givers of his daily bread, — and on the other an individual nameless and odious, his eye is to see neither, great nor small; attending only to the "trepidations of the balance." If a law. is passed by a unanimous Legislature, clamored for by the general voice of the public, and a cause is before him on it, in which the whole community is...