The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 17Butterworths, 1864 - Law |
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... question of law . This is the nearest approximation that has yet been made towards the complete assimilation of the Law of Appeal in civil and criminal proceedings . And permit me , in this place , to call attention to one pro- vision ...
... question of law . This is the nearest approximation that has yet been made towards the complete assimilation of the Law of Appeal in civil and criminal proceedings . And permit me , in this place , to call attention to one pro- vision ...
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... question of law than the judges of the Superior Courts , although it may , without offence , be supposed that the former have not a more extensive or accurate knowledge of its principles than the learned judges who preside over the ...
... question of law than the judges of the Superior Courts , although it may , without offence , be supposed that the former have not a more extensive or accurate knowledge of its principles than the learned judges who preside over the ...
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... question of law , and requested the presiding judge to reserve the point . The request was refused , the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to be executed . Feeling the momentous importance of the issue to the prisoner , the ...
... question of law , and requested the presiding judge to reserve the point . The request was refused , the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to be executed . Feeling the momentous importance of the issue to the prisoner , the ...
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... questions argued on appeal in respect of them are reserved by the superior judges of Assize . 3. That in general the points ... question was set at rest in the case of the Queen v . Scaife , Smith , & Rooke , 17 Q.B. , 238 . That was an ...
... questions argued on appeal in respect of them are reserved by the superior judges of Assize . 3. That in general the points ... question was set at rest in the case of the Queen v . Scaife , Smith , & Rooke , 17 Q.B. , 238 . That was an ...
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... questions of law and fact . The objections to this form of proceeding are obvious . It applies to very few cases , and can scarcely be available to poor defendants . Questions of law frequently arise unex- pectedly in the course of an ...
... questions of law and fact . The objections to this form of proceeding are obvious . It applies to very few cases , and can scarcely be available to poor defendants . Questions of law frequently arise unex- pectedly in the course of an ...
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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.