A Course of Legal Study: Addressed to Students and the Profession Generally, Τόμος 2J. Neal, 1836 - 880 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 449
... never maintain a lofty charac- ter , if when called on , he shrinks from the discussion of questions involving nice and difficult points of natural juris- prudence , or of conventional and diplomatic law . The liability to be thus ...
... never maintain a lofty charac- ter , if when called on , he shrinks from the discussion of questions involving nice and difficult points of natural juris- prudence , or of conventional and diplomatic law . The liability to be thus ...
Σελίδα 479
... never understand law as a science so well as by seeking it there ; and therefore he lamented much that it was so little studied in England .'- Burnet's Life of Hale , p . 24 . THE CIVIL OR ROMAN LAW . ( Note 1. ) 1. Gibbon's concise ...
... never understand law as a science so well as by seeking it there ; and therefore he lamented much that it was so little studied in England .'- Burnet's Life of Hale , p . 24 . THE CIVIL OR ROMAN LAW . ( Note 1. ) 1. Gibbon's concise ...
Σελίδα 502
... never can admit of much beauty . Far different was the fortune of the Civil Law . It originated in times of the highest civilization , the offspring of philosophy and science . The compilers of it , though at the head of the legal ...
... never can admit of much beauty . Far different was the fortune of the Civil Law . It originated in times of the highest civilization , the offspring of philosophy and science . The compilers of it , though at the head of the legal ...
Σελίδα 519
... never consider his legal course of reading by any means complete , until he has read at least as extensively on the Civil Law , as is here prescribed . In this branch of his studies he will find much to admire , and but little to ...
... never consider his legal course of reading by any means complete , until he has read at least as extensively on the Civil Law , as is here prescribed . In this branch of his studies he will find much to admire , and but little to ...
Σελίδα 538
... never to produce any greater benefit to the public than barely the introduction of Pothier to the acquaintance of my country- men , I should think that I had in some measure discharged the debt which every man , according to Lord Coke ...
... never to produce any greater benefit to the public than barely the introduction of Pothier to the acquaintance of my country- men , I should think that I had in some measure discharged the debt which every man , according to Lord Coke ...
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Σελίδα 559 - The science of politics, however, like most other sciences, has received great improvement. The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients. The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their...
Σελίδα 593 - It is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave; at home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; in society, an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage...
Σελίδα 729 - Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his Improvement of the Mind, of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding, but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended.
Σελίδα 570 - A / Comparative View / of the / Constitutions / of the / Several States With Each Other, and With That / Of The United States : / exhibiting in / Tables / The prominent Features of each Constitution, / and classing together their most important provisions under the / several heads of administration; / with / Notes and Observations.
Σελίδα 749 - the first command and counsel of my youth, always to do what my conscience told me to be my duty, and to leave the consequences to God. I shall carry with me the memory, and I trust the practice, of this...
Σελίδα 792 - His lordship then proceeded to say that the dependence or independence of covenants was to be collected from the evident sense and meaning of the parties, and that however transposed they might be in the deed, their precedency must depend on the order of time in which the intent of the transaction requires their performance.
Σελίδα 586 - In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for ever and be greater than any assignable quantity; yet still the power of population being in every period so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity, acting as a check upon the greater power.
Σελίδα 790 - He has not, indeed, cited any authority for this opinion; but his opinion alone is of great authority; since he was considered by his contemporaries as the most able lawyer in Westminster Hall.
Σελίδα 792 - that the reason why money cannot be followed is, because it has no ear-mark:" but this is not true. The true reason is, upon account of the currency of it: it cannot be recovered after it has passed in currency.
Σελίδα 764 - If my client consents to endeavors for a compromise of his claim or defense, and for that purpose I am to commune with the opposing counsel or others, I will never permit myself to enter upon a system of tactics, to ascertain who shall overreach the other by the most nicely balanced artifices of disIngenuousness, by mystery, silence, obscurity, suspicion, vigilance to the letter, and all of the other machinery used by this class of tacticians to the vulgar surprise of clients, and the admiration...