 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...univerfal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's decifions, are not to be confidered as introdudtive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental conftitutions of the kingdom ; without which it muft ceafe to be a part of the civilized world. Thus... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...univerfal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's deciflons, are not to be confidered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental conftitutions of the kingdom ; without which it muft ceafe to be a part of the civili2ed world. Thus... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Courts - 1824 - 326 pages
...the sentences of foreign Courts of admiralty conclusive in a suit on a policy of in • 2 Bur. 889. t Thus in mercantile questions, such as bills of exchange...nature, the law merchant which is a branch of the lav of nations is regularly and constantly adhered to, so that in all disputes relating to prizes,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the...insurances, bottomry, and others of a similar nature ; the law-merchant d, which is a branch of the law of nations, is regularly and constantly adhered to. So... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the...insurances, bottomry, and others of a similar nature ; the law-merchant '', which is a branch of the law of nations, is regularly and constantly adhered to. So... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the...and others of a similar nature ; the law merchant (d), which is a branch of the law of nations, is regularly and constantly adhered to. So too in all... | |
 | James Reddie - History - 1841 - 520 pages
...bills of exchange."! Farther, in another place, adds the same learned judge and commentator : — " In mercantile questions, such as bills of exchange...marine causes, relating to freight, average, demurrage, insurance, bottomry, and others of a similar nature, the law merchant, which is a branch of the law... | |
 | Colonial society East India comm - 1842 - 144 pages
...adopted in its full extent by the Common Law, and is held'to be a part of the law of the land, and of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom;...it must cease to be a part of the civilized world.* The foundations of the Common Law are by another writer said to be—1. The Law of Nature or reason;... | |
 | John Duer - Insurance law - 1844 - 256 pages
...full extent by the common law, and is held to " be a part of the law of the land. Thus in mer" cantile questions, such as bills of exchange and " the like...freight, " average, demurrage, insurances, bottomry, and (a) Pothier Traitc dee Assurances, n. 9. Emerigon, ch. 1. sec. 6. " others of a similar nature, the... | |
 | Portfolio - 1844 - 766 pages
...enforce, or decisions to facilitate, the execution ; and are therefore considered, not as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom ; and, finally, without which the kingdom itself must cease to be a part of the civilised world." He... | |
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And those acts of parliament, which have from time to time been made to enforce this universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental... 
