Lord Brougham's Law Reforms: Comprising the Acts and Bills Introduced Or Carried by Him Through the Legislature Since 1811, with an Analytical Review of Them |
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... Advantages of trial by jury — Of Grand Juries - Law of Evidence - Recommendation of parties to a cause being made witnesses - Written Evidence - Statute of Limitations - Payment of debts by Instalments recommended in the Superior Courts ...
... Advantages of trial by jury — Of Grand Juries - Law of Evidence - Recommendation of parties to a cause being made witnesses - Written Evidence - Statute of Limitations - Payment of debts by Instalments recommended in the Superior Courts ...
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... Advantages of trial by jury — Of Grand Juries - Law of Evidence - Recommendation of parties to a cause being made witnesses - Written Evidence - Statute of Limitations - Payment of debts by Instalments recommended in the Superior Courts ...
... Advantages of trial by jury — Of Grand Juries - Law of Evidence - Recommendation of parties to a cause being made witnesses - Written Evidence - Statute of Limitations - Payment of debts by Instalments recommended in the Superior Courts ...
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... Advantages of Moral and Religious Training- Great Speech on Law Reform , 12th May , 1848 - Laws - the makers of them -- the way in which they are made their pro- mulgation and their administration - He passes in review the defective ...
... Advantages of Moral and Religious Training- Great Speech on Law Reform , 12th May , 1848 - Laws - the makers of them -- the way in which they are made their pro- mulgation and their administration - He passes in review the defective ...
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... advantage of their country . There is no more degrading effect of Despotism , than that it limits the cha- ritable feelings of our nature , rendering men suspicious and selfish , and forgetful that they have a Country . Happily 1818 ...
... advantage of their country . There is no more degrading effect of Despotism , than that it limits the cha- ritable feelings of our nature , rendering men suspicious and selfish , and forgetful that they have a Country . Happily 1818 ...
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... advantages and influences which it placed in the hands of the clergy of the Es- tablished Church , as regarded the religious instruction * Bill for better providing the means of Education for his Ma- jesty's subjects . ( Parish School ...
... advantages and influences which it placed in the hands of the clergy of the Es- tablished Church , as regarded the religious instruction * Bill for better providing the means of Education for his Ma- jesty's subjects . ( Parish School ...
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Page 74 - There is a law above all the enactments of human codes, the same throughout the world — the same in all times...
Page 63 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 76 - The widow and the orphan cried to him as vainly as the town-crier when he offers a small reward for a full purse. The bankrupt of the court became the lunatic of the court. Estates mouldered away and mansions fell down, but the fees came in and all was well ; but in an instant the iron mace of Brougham shivered to pieces this House of Fraud and of Delay.
Page 75 - Now, then, let the planters beware — let their Assemblies beware — let the Government at home beware — let the Parliament beware ! The same country is once more awake — awake to the condition of negro slavery ; the same indignation kindles in the bosom of the same people ; the same cloud is gathering that annihilated the slave trade ; and, if it shall descend again, they on whom its crash may fall, will not be destroyed before I have warned them ; but I pray that their destruction may turn...
Page xxi - An Act for the further amendment of the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham.
Page 19 - Study, then, I beseech you, so to store your minds with the exquisite learning of former ages, that you may always possess within yourselves sources of rational and refined enjoyment, which will enable you to set at...
Page 19 - ... while the distracting cares of the world, or its beguiling pleasures, cross not the threshold of these calm retreats; its distant noise and bustle are faintly heard, making the shelter you enjoy more grateful ; and the struggles of anxious mortals embarked upon that troublous sea are viewed from an eminence, the security of which is rendered more sweet by the prospect of the scene below.
Page xvi - An Act to abolish the Office of Master in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and to make Provision for the more speedy and Efficient Despatch of Business in the said Court.
Page 74 - ... it is at this day : it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page xvii - Fourth (chapter seventyfour), "for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and " for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance...