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... decisions or judgments be- ing made by divers courts and several independent judges and judiciaries who had no common interest amongst them in their several judicatories ; thereby in process of time every several county would have ...
... decisions or judgments be- ing made by divers courts and several independent judges and judiciaries who had no common interest amongst them in their several judicatories ; thereby in process of time every several county would have ...
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... decisions , they were practically uncontrolled by any sys- tem of law . They were inclined to believe , as Winthrop said , that " such laws would be fittest for us which should arise pro re nata upon occasions . " This was quite in ...
... decisions , they were practically uncontrolled by any sys- tem of law . They were inclined to believe , as Winthrop said , that " such laws would be fittest for us which should arise pro re nata upon occasions . " This was quite in ...
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... decisions of the courts , there was little need of lawyers learned in the English Common Law . " When the holy Scriptures were considered as ( 1 ) See The Body of Liberties of 1641 , by H. H. Edes , Publications of the Massachusetts ...
... decisions of the courts , there was little need of lawyers learned in the English Common Law . " When the holy Scriptures were considered as ( 1 ) See The Body of Liberties of 1641 , by H. H. Edes , Publications of the Massachusetts ...
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... , 1720 and 1731 . ( 1 ) See the famous case of Winthrop v . Lechmere , in which the King in Council in 1728 reversed the Connecticut court's decisions . Under all these circumstances , the Bar developed even later 20 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL .
... , 1720 and 1731 . ( 1 ) See the famous case of Winthrop v . Lechmere , in which the King in Council in 1728 reversed the Connecticut court's decisions . Under all these circumstances , the Bar developed even later 20 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL .
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... decisions , was only about a century old . Those cases which are to the modern student almost his ear- liest landmarks , were then to be found in reports published only a few years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth . Shelley's case ...
... decisions , was only about a century old . Those cases which are to the modern student almost his ear- liest landmarks , were then to be found in reports published only a few years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth . Shelley's case ...
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Página 141 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 141 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries
Página 78 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Página 141 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual...
Página xiii - Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.
Página 484 - And, independent of that, as myself an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.
Página 91 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Página 233 - I have been very unwilling to proceed to the decision of this cause at all. It appears to me to bear strong evidence upon the face of it of being a mere feigned case. It is our duty to decide on the rights but not in a speculation of parties.
Página 5 - Both being wounded, the one in the hand, the other in the thigh, they are adjudged by the whole company to have their head and feet tied together, and so to lie for twentyfour hours, without meat or drink ; which is begun to be inflicted, but within an hour, because of their great pains, at their own and their master's humble request, upon promise of better carriage, they are released by the governor.] with Mitchell's Hist.
Página 192 - I deride with you the ordinary doctrine, that we brought with us from England the common law rights. This narrow notion was a favorite in the first moment of rallying to our rights against Great Britain. But it was that of men who felt their rights before they had thought of their explanation. The truth is, that we brought with us the rights of men; of expatriated men On our arrival here, the question would at once arise, by what law will we govern ourselves?