Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the Work. With a Life of the Author, and Notes: by Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden, and Ryland: and Also References to American Cases, Τόμος 1W.E. Dean, 1838 |
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Σελίδα xxi
... necessary for the good of society 8. The absolute rights , or civil liberties , of Englishmen , as frequently declared in Parliament , are principally three : the right of personal security , of per- sonal liberty , and of private ...
... necessary for the good of society 8. The absolute rights , or civil liberties , of Englishmen , as frequently declared in Parliament , are principally three : the right of personal security , of per- sonal liberty , and of private ...
Σελίδα 4
... necessary to ascertain the sense with indisputable legal precision , or has executed his will in the pre- sence of fewer witnesses than the law requires . But to proceed from private concerns to those of a more public conside- ration ...
... necessary to ascertain the sense with indisputable legal precision , or has executed his will in the pre- sence of fewer witnesses than the law requires . But to proceed from private concerns to those of a more public conside- ration ...
Σελίδα 5
... necessary to almost every art , commercial or mechanical : a long course of reading and study must form the divine , the physician , and the practical professor of the laws : but every man of superior fortune thinks himself born a ...
... necessary to almost every art , commercial or mechanical : a long course of reading and study must form the divine , the physician , and the practical professor of the laws : but every man of superior fortune thinks himself born a ...
Σελίδα 13
... necessary removals in times of the plague excepted ) in the palace of West- minster only . This brought together the professors of the municipal law , who before were dispersed about the kingdom , and formed them into an aggregate body ...
... necessary removals in times of the plague excepted ) in the palace of West- minster only . This brought together the professors of the municipal law , who before were dispersed about the kingdom , and formed them into an aggregate body ...
Σελίδα 20
... necessary to form a truly va- luable English lawyer , a Hyde , a Hale , or a Talbot . And , whatever the ignorance of some , or unkindness of others , may have heretofore untruly suggested , experience will warrant us to affirm , that ...
... necessary to form a truly va- luable English lawyer , a Hyde , a Hale , or a Talbot . And , whatever the ignorance of some , or unkindness of others , may have heretofore untruly suggested , experience will warrant us to affirm , that ...
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Σελίδα 353 - 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 403 - I proceed to distribute and consider its several objects. •There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, [ *2 ] and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Σελίδα 353 - For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself...
Σελίδα 317 - For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself.
Σελίδα 322 - 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 114 - 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...
Σελίδα 114 - ... this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Σελίδα 100 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Σελίδα 46 - ... as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments...
Σελίδα 26 - 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 authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.