Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1Callaghan, 1872 - Law |
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... considered as fairly within any general grant of legislative power , and whether express constitutional guaranties can be needed to secure that which has always been enjoyed from the very earliest history of the country , and which is ...
... considered as fairly within any general grant of legislative power , and whether express constitutional guaranties can be needed to secure that which has always been enjoyed from the very earliest history of the country , and which is ...
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... considered : 1. as to the several sorts of servants ,. 423 slavery , historical view of , .. .423-425 now abolished , .. .425n menial servants , or domestics ,. 425 apprentices , who are bound by indentures to learn an occupation ...
... considered : 1. as to the several sorts of servants ,. 423 slavery , historical view of , .. .423-425 now abolished , .. .425n menial servants , or domestics ,. 425 apprentices , who are bound by indentures to learn an occupation ...
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... considered , 1. the quantity of interest ; 2. the time of enjoyment ; 3. the number and connections of the tenants ,. with respect to quantity of interest estates are freehold or less than freehold ,. 103 a freehold is such an estate as ...
... considered , 1. the quantity of interest ; 2. the time of enjoyment ; 3. the number and connections of the tenants ,. with respect to quantity of interest estates are freehold or less than freehold ,. 103 a freehold is such an estate as ...
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... considered , ... they have subsisted in England immemorially ; the deceased being at liberty to dispose of his personal estate , reserving anciently to his wife and children their reasonable part ,. ..490-520 490 491 if one died ...
... considered , ... they have subsisted in England immemorially ; the deceased being at liberty to dispose of his personal estate , reserving anciently to his wife and children their reasonable part ,. ..490-520 490 491 if one died ...
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... considered as no small accomplishment of a gentleman ; and a fashion has prevailed , especially of late , to transport the growing hopes of this island to foreign universities , in Switzerland , Germany and Holland ; which , thongh infi ...
... considered as no small accomplishment of a gentleman ; and a fashion has prevailed , especially of late , to transport the growing hopes of this island to foreign universities , in Switzerland , Germany and Holland ; which , thongh infi ...
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Page 333 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 290 - 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 151 - Will you. to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 329 - There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 138 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess; and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 30 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 264 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 103 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still 'in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative', when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Page 238 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.