 | Sir William Blackstone - Droit - 1791 - 516 pages
...thofe laws were at preient merely cral, or communicated from the former ages to the prefent folely by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly ovcrfprcad the whole wcftern world, all laws were entirely traditional ; for this plain reafon, becaufe... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...thofe laws were at prcfent merely araf, or communicated from the former ages to the prcfent folcly by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly overfpread the whole wcftern world, all laws were entirely traditional, for this plain reafon, becaufe... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...thofe laws were at prefent merely oral, or communicated fiom the former ages to the prefent folely by word of mouth. It is true indeed, that in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly ovcrfprcad the whole wedern world, all laws were entirely traditional ; for this plain reafon, that... | |
 | William Herbert - Inns of Chancery - 1804 - 454 pages
...be understood as if all those law* were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former agei to the present solely by word of mouth. It is true...entirely traditional, for this plain reason, that the nations among which they prevailed had but little idea of writing. Thus the British as well as... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...law leges non scrifitaei I would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oro/, or communicated from the former ages to the present...ignorance of letters which formerly overspread the tvhole western world, all laws were entirely traditional, for this plain reason, because the nations... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 448 pages
...those laws were "nat present merely oral, or commnnicated " from the former ages by word of mouth 14 It is true, indeed, that in the profound " ignorance of letters which formerly ovcr" spread the whole western world, all laws " were entirely traditional, for this plain " reason,... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...no{ written, is not at this time purely oral, or communicated from former ages to the prefent folcly by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly overfpread the whole weftern world, all laws were entiriiy traditional, becaufe the nations, among... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...and jurisdictions. When I call these parts of our law leges non scriptce, I would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral,...former ages to the present solely by word of mouth ; because their original institution and authority are not set down in writing, as acts of parliament... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...jurisdictions. (1) WHEN I call those parts of our law leges non scriptae, I would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral,...were entirely traditional, for this plain reason, because the nations among which they prevailed had but little idea of writing. Thus the British as... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...jurisdictions. (1) WHEN I call those parts of our law leges non scriptae, I would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral,...were entirely traditional, for this plain reason, because the nations among which they prevailed had but little idea of writing. Thus the British as... | |
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When I call these parts of our law leges non scriptce, 1 would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former ages to the present solely by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance... 
