The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 17Butterworths, 1864 - Law |
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... legislature conferred the right of appeal even in criminal cases , where the subject of it was a question of law . This is the nearest approximation that has yet been made towards the complete assimilation of the Law of Appeal in civil ...
... legislature conferred the right of appeal even in criminal cases , where the subject of it was a question of law . This is the nearest approximation that has yet been made towards the complete assimilation of the Law of Appeal in civil ...
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... legislature has considered them of so much impor- tance as to have established a special court for their con- sideration . Secondly , however simple the facts deposed to upon a criminal trial may be , the verdict may , notwithstanding ...
... legislature has considered them of so much impor- tance as to have established a special court for their con- sideration . Secondly , however simple the facts deposed to upon a criminal trial may be , the verdict may , notwithstanding ...
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... legislature to amend this department of the law . The first , and indeed the most comprehensive measure that has hitherto been laid before Parliament , was the Bill of 1844 , introduced to the House of Commons by our learned Chairman ...
... legislature to amend this department of the law . The first , and indeed the most comprehensive measure that has hitherto been laid before Parliament , was the Bill of 1844 , introduced to the House of Commons by our learned Chairman ...
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... legislature of 1864 would follow the example of the Parliament of 1844 in reject- ing a bill which proposed changes so comprehensive and important . Our system of law making is empirical ; we advance by short steps cautiously taken ...
... legislature of 1864 would follow the example of the Parliament of 1844 in reject- ing a bill which proposed changes so comprehensive and important . Our system of law making is empirical ; we advance by short steps cautiously taken ...
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... legislature was anticipated by the act of the parties , and as the two parts thus united made one whole estate no room was left for the operation of the statute . A use united to the seisin filled up the measure of the estate hence the ...
... legislature was anticipated by the act of the parties , and as the two parts thus united made one whole estate no room was left for the operation of the statute . A use united to the seisin filled up the measure of the estate hence the ...
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Page 48 - ... fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender shall be convicted...
Page 47 - States shall then be at peace with such belligerent. ) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly being concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship...
Page 48 - Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, or by changing those on board for other guns, or by the addition of any equipment for war, increase or augment, or procure to be increased or augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in increasing or augmenting...
Page 48 - ... foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people, or belonging to the subjects or citizens of any such prince or state, colony, district, or people, the same being at war with any foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel...
Page 53 - ... equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any Ship or Vessel, with intent or in order that such Ship or Vessel shall be employed in the Service...
Page 353 - ARBITRATION.— Russell's Treatise on the Duty and Power of an Arbitrator, and the La"w of Submissions and Awards ; with an Appendix of Forms, and of the Statutes relating to Arbitration. By FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq., MA, Barrister-at-Law.
Page 131 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme.
Page 184 - Dictionary of Jurisprudence, explaining the Technical Words and Phrases employed in the several Departments of English Law ; including the various Legal Terms used in Commercial Transactions. Together with an Explanatory as well as Literal Translation of the Latin Maxims contained in the Writings of the Ancient and Modern Commentators. Sixth Edition.
Page 151 - The negroes prefer a glass necklace to that gold which polite nations so highly value. Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians.
Page 136 - July 16, 1862, it was provided " that the laws, of the State in which the court shall be held shall be the rules of decision as to the competency of witnesses in the courts of the United States, in trials at Common Law, in Equity, and Admiralty.