The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 23; Volume 54Saunders and Benning, 1855 - Law |
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... periods , might be deduced and exhibited to the mind of a modern jurist in the true colours in which they appeared to persons who lived in those respective periods . " If , then , " our statutes and the interpretation of them , with the ...
... periods , might be deduced and exhibited to the mind of a modern jurist in the true colours in which they appeared to persons who lived in those respective periods . " If , then , " our statutes and the interpretation of them , with the ...
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... periods commencing with the Norman Conquest , and extending down to the time of Sir E. Coke , who became Chief Justice ... period we shall find our Lex Mercatoria erected gradually on a firm , enduring , and comprehensive basis : this ...
... periods commencing with the Norman Conquest , and extending down to the time of Sir E. Coke , who became Chief Justice ... period we shall find our Lex Mercatoria erected gradually on a firm , enduring , and comprehensive basis : this ...
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... period liberally construed , and the principle on which the exception is founded , viz . the encouragement of trade , holds equally with reference to manu- facturers in partnership , and to every description of trade . At a somewhat ...
... period liberally construed , and the principle on which the exception is founded , viz . the encouragement of trade , holds equally with reference to manu- facturers in partnership , and to every description of trade . At a somewhat ...
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... period , the Statute of Limitations , 21 Jac . 1 , c . 16 , the 3rd section of which , it may be remembered , specially exempts from its operation " such accounts as concern the trade of merchandize between merchant and merchant , their ...
... period , the Statute of Limitations , 21 Jac . 1 , c . 16 , the 3rd section of which , it may be remembered , specially exempts from its operation " such accounts as concern the trade of merchandize between merchant and merchant , their ...
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... period ; for he undoubtedly laid no inconsiderable portion of the basis of that continually increasing structure- the Lex Mercatoria - which now forms so very prominent a com- partment of our entire legal edifice . With this great judge ...
... period ; for he undoubtedly laid no inconsiderable portion of the basis of that continually increasing structure- the Lex Mercatoria - which now forms so very prominent a com- partment of our entire legal edifice . With this great judge ...
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Page 407 - Whenever any ship, whether a steam or sailing ship, proceeding in one direction, meets another ship, whether a steam or tailing ship, proceeding in another direction, so that if both ships were to continue their respective courses they would pass so near as to involve any risk of a collision, the helms of both ships shall be put to port so as to pass on the port side of each other...
Page 253 - ... shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be...
Page 101 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 287 - ... he may be examined upon oath touching his estate and effects and the manner and circumstances under which he contracted the debt or incurred the damages or liability which is the subject of the action in which judgment has been obtained against him, and as to the means and expectations he then had and as to the property and means he still hath of discharging the said debt or damages or liability, and as to the disposal he may have made of any property...
Page 276 - That on complaint and request in writing by or on behalf of any person committed and charged with any crime (unless committed for treason or felony expressed in the warrant; or as accessory, or on suspicion of being accessory, before the fact, to any petit treason or felony; or upon suspicion of such...
Page 384 - Act annexed (on which judgment no proceeding in error is to lie), for any sum not exceeding the sum indorsed on the writ, together with interest at the rate specified (if any) to the date of the judgment; and a sum for costs to be fixed by the...
Page 389 - After judgment, the Court, or a Judge may, under special circumstances, set aside the judgment, and, if necessary, stay or set asid'e execution, and may give leave to appear to the...
Page 288 - Court, that the party so summoned has then, or has had since the judgment obtained against him, sufficient means and ability to pay the debt, or damages, or costs so recovered...
Page 169 - First, cases in which the party charged has had actual notice that the property in dispute was in fact charged, incumbered, or in some way affected, and the Court has thereupon bound him with constructive notice of facts and instruments, to a knowledge of which he would have been led by an inquiry after the charge, incumbrance, or other circumstance affecting the property of which he had actual notice...
Page 13 - From that time we all know the great study has been to find some certain general principles, which shall be known to all mankind, not only to rule the particular case then under consideration, but to serve as a guide for the future. Most of us have heard these principles stated, reasoned upon, enlarged, and explained, till we have been lost in admiration at the strength and stretch of the human understanding...