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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... seems to have soon taken under its protection this infant se- minary of common law ; and , the more effectually to ... seem to have been first appointed by an ordinance of King Edward the First in parliament , in the 20th year of his ...
... seems to have soon taken under its protection this infant se- minary of common law ; and , the more effectually to ... seem to have been first appointed by an ordinance of King Edward the First in parliament , in the 20th year of his ...
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... seem to import , ) then the intention is evidently this ; by preventing private teachers , within the walls of the ... seems principally owing to these reasons : first , because the inns of chancery being now almost totally filled by ...
... seem to import , ) then the intention is evidently this ; by preventing private teachers , within the walls of the ... seems principally owing to these reasons : first , because the inns of chancery being now almost totally filled by ...
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... seems to owe its original to king Alfred ( 24 ) , who , to prevent " the rapines and disorders which formerly [ * 114 ] prevailed in the realm , instituted tithings , so called from the Sax- on , because ten freeholders , with their ...
... seems to owe its original to king Alfred ( 24 ) , who , to prevent " the rapines and disorders which formerly [ * 114 ] prevailed in the realm , instituted tithings , so called from the Sax- on , because ten freeholders , with their ...
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... seems to be most peculiarly the invention of Alfred : the institution of hundreds themselves he rather introduced than invented ; for they seem to have obtained in Denmark ( m ) : and we find that in France a regulation of this sort was ...
... seems to be most peculiarly the invention of Alfred : the institution of hundreds themselves he rather introduced than invented ; for they seem to have obtained in Denmark ( m ) : and we find that in France a regulation of this sort was ...
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... seems to have been under- stood very early after the statute of Henry VII . that the duchy of Lancaster was by no means thereby made a separate inheritance from the rest of the royal patrimony , since it descended with the crown to the ...
... seems to have been under- stood very early after the statute of Henry VII . that the duchy of Lancaster was by no means thereby made a separate inheritance from the rest of the royal patrimony , since it descended with the crown to the ...
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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.