The Law Magazine and Review: For Both Branches of the Legal Profession at Home and AbroadButterworths, 1875 |
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Seite 452 - Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid to order the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the presentation of any petition for a commission in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo, or for any order of inquiry under " The Lunacy Regulation Act, 1853...
Seite 691 - Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Seite 823 - He has only the right of prosecution or defence in the manner prescribed, for the time being, by or for the court in which he sues ; and if a statute alters that mode of procedure, he has no other right than to proceed according to the altered mode.
Seite 351 - But if an individual can break down any of those safeguards which the Constitution has so wisely and so cautiously erected, by poisoning the minds of the jury at a time when they are called upon to decide, he will stab the administration of justice in its most vital parts.
Seite 501 - Impunity and remissness, for certain, are the bane of a commonwealth; but here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Seite 131 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 144 - If, after a defendant has been sentenced to the punishment of death, there is reasonable ground to believe that he has become insane, the sheriff of the county in which the conviction took place, with the concurrence of a justice of the supreme court, or the county judge of the county...
Seite 510 - ... all those which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths ; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not what ought to be law : for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another.
Seite 825 - A statute is the will of the legislature, and the fundamental rule .of interpretation, to which all others are subordinate, is that a statute is. to be expounded 'according to the intent of them that made it'.
Seite 406 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.