Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the Work. With a Life of the Author, and Notes: by Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden, and Ryland: and Also References to American Cases, Band 1W.E. Dean, 1838 |
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... body . This new situation afforded fresh matter for his active genius to exercise itself in ; and it was chiefly by his means that this donation , which had been for some years matter of contention only , became a very valuable ...
... body . This new situation afforded fresh matter for his active genius to exercise itself in ; and it was chiefly by his means that this donation , which had been for some years matter of contention only , became a very valuable ...
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... body . An attempt being made about this time to restrain the power given him , as Professor , by the Vinerian statutes , to nominate a deputy to read the solemn lectures , he published a state of the case , for the perusal of the ...
... body . An attempt being made about this time to restrain the power given him , as Professor , by the Vinerian statutes , to nominate a deputy to read the solemn lectures , he published a state of the case , for the perusal of the ...
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... body , rendered him still more un- active than he used to be , and contributed to the breaking up of his consti- tution at an early period of life . About Christmas , 1779 , he was seized with a violent shortness of breath , which the ...
... body , rendered him still more un- active than he used to be , and contributed to the breaking up of his consti- tution at an early period of life . About Christmas , 1779 , he was seized with a violent shortness of breath , which the ...
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... bodies politic or corporations 5. The rights of natural persons are , I. Absolute , or such as belong to indivi- duals ... body , health , and reputation 10. The right of personal liberty con- sists in the free power of loco - motion ...
... bodies politic or corporations 5. The rights of natural persons are , I. Absolute , or such as belong to indivi- duals ... body , health , and reputation 10. The right of personal liberty con- sists in the free power of loco - motion ...
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... body of the nation , declared , that the misconduct of king James II . amounted to an ab- dication of the government , and that the throne was thereby vacant 9. In consequence of this vacancy , and from a regard to the antient line ...
... body of the nation , declared , that the misconduct of king James II . amounted to an ab- dication of the government , and that the throne was thereby vacant 9. In consequence of this vacancy , and from a regard to the antient line ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 353 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Seite 403 - I proceed to distribute and consider its several objects. •There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, [ *2 ] and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Seite 353 - For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself...
Seite 317 - For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself.
Seite 322 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Seite 114 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations...
Seite 114 - ... this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Seite 100 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Seite 46 - ... as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments...
Seite 26 - This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.