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Σελίδα xxiii
... judges : and a few of them are here presented to the reader . " He it was , " said Lord Avonmore , speaking of Sir William Blackstone , " that first gave to the law the air of a science . He found it a skeleton , and clothed it with ...
... judges : and a few of them are here presented to the reader . " He it was , " said Lord Avonmore , speaking of Sir William Blackstone , " that first gave to the law the air of a science . He found it a skeleton , and clothed it with ...
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... judges , to direct , controul , and even reverse their verdicts , than perhaps the constitution intended . But it is not as a juror only , that the English gentleman is called upon to determine questions of right , and distri- bute ...
... judges , to direct , controul , and even reverse their verdicts , than perhaps the constitution intended . But it is not as a juror only , that the English gentleman is called upon to determine questions of right , and distri- bute ...
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... judges upon their honour of the lives of their brother - peers , but also arbiters of the property of all their fellow - subjects , and that in the last resort . In this their judicial capacity they are bound to decide the nicest and ...
... judges upon their honour of the lives of their brother - peers , but also arbiters of the property of all their fellow - subjects , and that in the last resort . In this their judicial capacity they are bound to decide the nicest and ...
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... judge , or with prudence and reputation as an advocate , to know in what cases and how far the English laws have given sanction to the Roman ; in what points the latter are rejected ; and where they are both so intermixed and blended ...
... judge , or with prudence and reputation as an advocate , to know in what cases and how far the English laws have given sanction to the Roman ; in what points the latter are rejected ; and where they are both so intermixed and blended ...
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... judge is hardly to be acquired by the lucubrations of twenty years , yet with a genius of tolerable perspicuity , that knowledge which is fit for a person of birth or condition , may be learned in a single year , without neglecting his ...
... judge is hardly to be acquired by the lucubrations of twenty years , yet with a genius of tolerable perspicuity , that knowledge which is fit for a person of birth or condition , may be learned in a single year , without neglecting his ...
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Σελίδα 83 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Σελίδα 127 - 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 129 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said princess ; and for default of such issue to the princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said prince of Orange.
Σελίδα 240 - They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, 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 52 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law, as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance, and of protection from personal injuries.
Σελίδα 67 - Personal liberty," it has been well said, "consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.
Σελίδα 328 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Σελίδα 84 - God, the original of all just power: . . . that the commons of England, in parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing, the people, have the supreme power in this nation : . . . that whatsoever is enacted, or declared for law, by the commons, in parliament assembled, hath the force of law; and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of king, or house of peers be not had thereunto'.
Σελίδα 233 - The eleemosynary sort are such as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms, or bounty, of the founder of them to such persons as he has directed. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent: and all colleges, both in our universities and out e of them : which colleges are founded for two purposes ; 1.
Σελίδα 61 - The absolute rights of man, considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil, and, with power of choosing those measures which appear to him to be most desirable, are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated the natural liberty of mankind.