The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of JurisprudenceSaunders and Benning, 1843 - Law |
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... judgment is every moment in danger of being swept away into the fathomless abyss of a thousand volumes ; where there is no anchorage for the understanding ; where no reach of thought can look round in order to compare their points ; nor ...
... judgment is every moment in danger of being swept away into the fathomless abyss of a thousand volumes ; where there is no anchorage for the understanding ; where no reach of thought can look round in order to compare their points ; nor ...
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... judgment on the merits of the performance . Its accuracy might with ease be tested by referring to the best compilations of the criminal law , and thus ascertaining whether any repealed acts were inserted , any existing acts omitted ...
... judgment on the merits of the performance . Its accuracy might with ease be tested by referring to the best compilations of the criminal law , and thus ascertaining whether any repealed acts were inserted , any existing acts omitted ...
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... judgment in cases of doubtful treason , " till the cause be showed and declared before the king and his parliament , whether it ought to be adjudged treason or other felony , " finds no corresponding enactment in the digest , relates ...
... judgment in cases of doubtful treason , " till the cause be showed and declared before the king and his parliament , whether it ought to be adjudged treason or other felony , " finds no corresponding enactment in the digest , relates ...
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... judgment , and of modesty than wit , he still would not without the least resistance roll in the vortex of dulness with the generality of his contemporaries . " Mr. Yorke's letter concludes with a neat compliment , " However , I ...
... judgment , and of modesty than wit , he still would not without the least resistance roll in the vortex of dulness with the generality of his contemporaries . " Mr. Yorke's letter concludes with a neat compliment , " However , I ...
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... judgment , cannot be supported on the literal plan of interpreting the first part of Genesis ; since the tree of life is suggested to be a means of repairing bodily decay ; and Adam is hastened out of Paradise , lest he should put forth ...
... judgment , cannot be supported on the literal plan of interpreting the first part of Genesis ; since the tree of life is suggested to be a means of repairing bodily decay ; and Adam is hastened out of Paradise , lest he should put forth ...
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Page 187 - I believe quite correctly, that "the rule of law is laid down with perfect correctness in the case of Butterfield v. Forrester, that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet unless he might, by the exercise of ordinary care, have avoided the consequences of the defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover; if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong.
Page 344 - BISHOPS, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage : therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.
Page 423 - ... goods in the order and disposition of the bankrupt at the time of the bankruptcy, under 6 Geo.
Page 28 - ... if a man slay the chancellor, treasurer, or the king's justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assize, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places doing their offices.
Page 28 - Inst. 9), or the king's eldest daughter, unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son nnd heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm ; or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm giving them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere, and thereof be probably (proveablement, proveably) attainted of open deed by the people of their condition...
Page 28 - ... when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our lady his Queen or of their eldest son and heir...
Page 448 - Will. 4, c. 27, s. 1, and c. 74, s. 1, it is declared that " the word ' person' shall extend to a body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as an individual." And in the tithe commutation act, 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 71, s.
Page 433 - Plaintiff shall not have Costs against the Defendant, unless the Judge before whom the Trial is had shall certify his Approbation of the Action and of the Verdict obtained thereupon.
Page 504 - Act to continne and amend an Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland ; to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, .adjutants, paymasters, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, and surgeons' mates of the militia ; and to authorise the employment of the non-commissioned officers.
Page 244 - An Act to amend the Law for the Registration of " Persons entitled to Vote, and to define certain rights of " Voting, and to regulate certain Proceedings in the Election " of Members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales...