Connecticut Bar Journal, Volume 1Connecticut Bar Association, 1927 - Bar associations Includes Annual reports, and lists of members. |
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Page 238 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 302 - There is this distinction between a private individual and a constable : in order to justify the former in causing the imprisonment of a person, he must not only make out a reasonable ground of suspicion, but he must prove that a felony has actually been committed ; whereas a constable, having reasonable ground to suspect that a felony has been committed, is authorized to detain the party suspected until inquiry can be made by the proper authorities.
Page 240 - Court possess the qualifications required, but the whole body also should represent the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world.
Page 238 - International law in its widest and most comprehensive sense — including not only questions of right between nations, governed by what has been appropriately called the law of nations, but also questions arising under what is usually called private international law...
Page 240 - ... (2) After communication of the list by the Secretariat to the Governments of States, whether members of the League or not, for their opinion, to examine the replies received; and "(3) To report to the Council on the questions which are sufficiently ripe and on the procedure which might be followed with a view to preparing eventually for conferences for their solution.
Page 177 - At such Special Meeting no business shall be transacted except such as shall be specified in the notice thereof.
Page 130 - England, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate. Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice...
Page 216 - There shall be a judicial council for the continuous study of the organization, rules and methods of procedure and practice of the judicial system of the state, the work accomplished, and the results produced by that system and its various parts.
Page 321 - Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
Page 177 - Any member of the Association may be suspended or expelled for misconduct in his relations to this Association or in his profession on conviction thereof in such manner as may be prescribed by the...