The Elements of Morality: Including Polity, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1845 - Ethics |
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... reference to the Act of Crimes and Punishments , now under the consideration of the Legislature ; of which I have made some use . Besides the common English law - books , I have referred to some American ones , especially Chancellor ...
... reference to the Act of Crimes and Punishments , now under the consideration of the Legislature ; of which I have made some use . Besides the common English law - books , I have referred to some American ones , especially Chancellor ...
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... Reference to be had to the person's Moral Culture . 417. Death is an event in Man's moral being . 418. Necessity has no Law . 419. Case of Necessity from Danger to others . 420. Such Cases of Necessity are not to be defined . Conflicts ...
... Reference to be had to the person's Moral Culture . 417. Death is an event in Man's moral being . 418. Necessity has no Law . 419. Case of Necessity from Danger to others . 420. Such Cases of Necessity are not to be defined . Conflicts ...
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... reference to which we understand the thing . We under- stand a Language , when we apprehend what is said , accord- ing to the established vocabulary and grammar of the language ; without inquiring how the words came to have their ...
... reference to which we understand the thing . We under- stand a Language , when we apprehend what is said , accord- ing to the established vocabulary and grammar of the language ; without inquiring how the words came to have their ...
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... reference to the intercouse of a man with other men . 3. The Mental Desires . 35. The Appetites are of the nature of Instincts , in that they tend to their objects , without their objects being present to the mind as abstract notions ...
... reference to the intercouse of a man with other men . 3. The Mental Desires . 35. The Appetites are of the nature of Instincts , in that they tend to their objects , without their objects being present to the mind as abstract notions ...
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... reference to the use of language . When we have determined a future action by intention or settled purpose , we communicate the intention to another person who is concerned in the result , by a Promise . The person to whom my promise is ...
... reference to the use of language . When we have determined a future action by intention or settled purpose , we communicate the intention to another person who is concerned in the result , by a Promise . The person to whom my promise is ...
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Page 103 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 66 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 67 - As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
Page 345 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.
Page 104 - In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband.
Page 92 - A good consideration is such as that of blood, or of natural love and affection, when a man grants an estate to a near relation: being founded on motives of generosity, prudence, and natural duty; a valuable consideration is such as money, marriage, or the like, which the law esteems an equivalent given for the grant:^ and is therefore founded in motives of justice.
Page 104 - The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction. For, as he is to answer for her misbehaviour, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer.
Page 115 - For the canon law, which the common law follows in this case, deems so highly and with such mysterious reverence of the nuptial tie, that it will not allow it to be unloosed for any cause whatsoever, that arises after the union is made.
Page 257 - Octavius to be killed, declaring himself to be Brutus. So far as such acts come under the Moralist's notice, they must be considered under a special head ; for Heroic Virtue, as we have already said, is beyond the range of the Rules of Duty. 400. Though assertions, not literally true, may, by general Convention, cease to be Lies, we must be careful of trifling with the limits of such cases, and of too readily assuming, and acting upon, such Conventions. Carelessness in these matters, will diminish...
Page 107 - English law likewise justifies a woman killing one who attempts to ravish her: and so too the husband or father may justify killing a man who attempts a rape upon his wife or daughter : but not if he takes them in adultery by consent, for the one is forcible and felonious, but not the other.