 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...predecessors ;" all felt themselves bound •by them. No one thought himself at liberty to "decide according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land." This extraordinary unanimity affords the highest evidence of their industry as well as candour. Lord... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 448 pages
...from, according ' to his private sentiments, he being sworn ' to determine, not according to A is own 1 private judgment, but according to the ' known laws and customs of the land, not 4 delegated to pronounce a ntw law, but ' to maintain and expound the old one.''''—-, Seeing... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...we are told he takes, ' to deter' mine, not according to his own private judgment, but accord' ing to the known laws and customs of the land. ' To relieve...law, and to profess, in the language of Mr Justice Blackstone, that he is ' not making a new law, but vindicating the old from mis• representation.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment,...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. Yet this rule admits... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment,...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. Yet this rule admits... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Basil Montagu, John MacArthur - Bankruptcy - 1830 - 520 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments; he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment,...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 ; not to legislate,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, John M'Arthur - Bankruptcy - 1830 - 524 pages
...from, according to his private sentiments; he being sworn to determine, not according to his ov.-n 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; not to legislate, but... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 pages
...them to the penalty of having disregarded prohibitions which had no existence. A stronger instance (o prove that absurdity and injustice are not incompatible...law, and to profess, in the language of Mr. Justice Ulackstone, that he is " not making a new law, but vindicating the old from misrepresentation." This... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments: he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment,...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. Yet this rule admits... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...of any subsequent Judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment,...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*." It may perhaps be... | |
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... 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. 
