Abridgment of Blackstone's CommentariesSprague Correspondence School of Law, 1893 - 533 páginas |
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... whereby the subject is instructed and enjoined to observe those rights , and to abstain from the commission of those wrongs ; a third , remedial : whereby a method is pointed out to recover a man's 4 [ INTRO . THE NATURE OF LAWS .
... whereby the subject is instructed and enjoined to observe those rights , and to abstain from the commission of those wrongs ; a third , remedial : whereby a method is pointed out to recover a man's 4 [ INTRO . THE NATURE OF LAWS .
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William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague. whereby a method is pointed out to recover a man's private rights , or re- dress his private wrongs ; to which may be added a fourth , usually termed the sanction , or vindicatory branch of the ...
William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague. whereby a method is pointed out to recover a man's private rights , or re- dress his private wrongs ; to which may be added a fourth , usually termed the sanction , or vindicatory branch of the ...
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... recovering and asserting these rights , when wrongfully withheld or invaded . This is what we mean properly , when we speak of the protection of the law . THE VINDICATORY PART . With regard to the sanction of laws , or the evils that ...
... recovering and asserting these rights , when wrongfully withheld or invaded . This is what we mean properly , when we speak of the protection of the law . THE VINDICATORY PART . With regard to the sanction of laws , or the evils that ...
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... recovering equivalent damages ; but no suitable atonement can be made for the loss of life or limb . CIVIL DEATH . These rights of life and member , can only be determined by the death of the person ; which was formerly accounted to be ...
... recovering equivalent damages ; but no suitable atonement can be made for the loss of life or limb . CIVIL DEATH . These rights of life and member , can only be determined by the death of the person ; which was formerly accounted to be ...
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... the crown , to those general rules that are established for the rest of the community ; such as , that no costs shall be recovered against the king ; that the king can never be a 46 [ Воок I. OF THE KING'S PREROGATIVE .
... the crown , to those general rules that are established for the rest of the community ; such as , that no costs shall be recovered against the king ; that the king can never be a 46 [ Воок I. OF THE KING'S PREROGATIVE .
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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 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 socage 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.