Abridgment of Blackstone's CommentariesSprague Correspondence School of Law, 1893 - 533 páginas |
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... principal practice was as chamber counsel , and in that capacity he commanded the notice and regard of bench and bar , being invited by Lord Chief Justice Willes and Mr. Justice Bathrust to take the coif , which he declined . In 1761 he ...
... principal practice was as chamber counsel , and in that capacity he commanded the notice and regard of bench and bar , being invited by Lord Chief Justice Willes and Mr. Justice Bathrust to take the coif , which he declined . In 1761 he ...
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... principal obligation of hu- man laws . INTERPRETATION OF LAWS . The fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legis- lator is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made , by signs the most natural ...
... principal obligation of hu- man laws . INTERPRETATION OF LAWS . The fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legis- lator is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made , by signs the most natural ...
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... principal systems of laws prevailing in different districts . 1. The Mercian Laws . 2. The West Saxon Laws . 3. The Danish Law . Out of these King Edward the Confessor extracted one uniform system which was merely a revised edition of ...
... principal systems of laws prevailing in different districts . 1. The Mercian Laws . 2. The West Saxon Laws . 3. The Danish Law . Out of these King Edward the Confessor extracted one uniform system which was merely a revised edition of ...
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... principal and most authoritative evidence that can be given , of the existence of such a custom as shall form a part of the common law . The judgment itself , and all the proceedings previous thereto , are carefully registered and ...
... principal and most authoritative evidence that can be given , of the existence of such a custom as shall form a part of the common law . The judgment itself , and all the proceedings previous thereto , are carefully registered and ...
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... decennary . One of the principal inhabitants of the tithing is annually appointed to preside over the rest , being called the tithingman , the headborough , ( words which speak their 18 [ INTRO . COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO THE LAWS .
... decennary . One of the principal inhabitants of the tithing is annually appointed to preside over the rest , being called the tithingman , the headborough , ( words which speak their 18 [ INTRO . COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO THE LAWS .
Términos y frases comunes
act of parliament action afterwards alienation antient attainted bill breach called cause CHAPTER chattels civil committed common law consider contract conveyance corporations court of chancery court of equity court-leet coverture crime crown custom damages death debt declared deed defendant descend determined detinue distrained ecclesiastical emblements escheat execution executor fee-simple felony feodal feoffment forfeiture former freehold grant hath heirs held hereditaments husband imprisonment indictment inheritance injury issue joint-tenants judges judgment jurisdiction jury justice king king's bench knight-service lands law of England lease liberty lord manor marriage matter ment nature oath offence original owner party peace person plaintiff plea plead possession principal prisoner prosecution punishment reason recover remainder remedy rent rule seised seisin sheriff Sir Edward Coke species statute suit tenant tenements tenure therein thing tion trespass trial unless usually verdict vested villein villenage whereby wife words writ
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Página 78 - 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...
Página 438 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications — and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Página 438 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Página 37 - 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, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 100 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, 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.
Página 10 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Página 4 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Página 80 - Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in the case of any gross misbehaviour.
Página 35 - In the legislature the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not indeed of the king, which would destroy his constitutional...
Página 451 - when a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied.