A History of English Law, Volume 6Methuen & Company, 1924 - Law |
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... England , which would have enabled them conscientiously to conform to it . For the peaceful settlement of these questions there was needed a a monarch with all and more than all Elizabeth's tact and under- standing both of her people ...
... England , which would have enabled them conscientiously to conform to it . For the peaceful settlement of these questions there was needed a a monarch with all and more than all Elizabeth's tact and under- standing both of her people ...
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... England , " ibid 368 . 2 " From the Orkneys to the Oykel , one set of feuds was raging ; others were active from the Lawes to Kintyre ; others from the Borders to Peebles , Hawick and Biggar . When there happened to be no great feud ...
... England , " ibid 368 . 2 " From the Orkneys to the Oykel , one set of feuds was raging ; others were active from the Lawes to Kintyre ; others from the Borders to Peebles , Hawick and Biggar . When there happened to be no great feud ...
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... England during this period . 5 James had spent his youth in contests with his turbulent nobles and this newly organized Kirk . He had been kidnapped by his nobles , and defied by the ministers of the Kirk . But he had at length managed ...
... England during this period . 5 James had spent his youth in contests with his turbulent nobles and this newly organized Kirk . He had been kidnapped by his nobles , and defied by the ministers of the Kirk . But he had at length managed ...
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... England i 50-52 . " This victory ( over Huntly , Errol , and Angus ) may be considered to be the turning - point of James's reign in Scotland . It established decisively . . . that the king had now a national force at his disposal which ...
... England i 50-52 . " This victory ( over Huntly , Errol , and Angus ) may be considered to be the turning - point of James's reign in Scotland . It established decisively . . . that the king had now a national force at his disposal which ...
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... England and Scotland . But , though he could write and speak sensibly upon these topics , he was never more than an enlightened philosopher . He never grasped the fact , that , when a policy has been elaborated , the most difficult task ...
... England and Scotland . But , though he could write and speak sensibly upon these topics , he was never more than an enlightened philosopher . He never grasped the fact , that , when a policy has been elaborated , the most difficult task ...
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Page 357 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 277 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
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Page 382 - Evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received without the writing or secondary evidence of its contents : 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ; 2.
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Page 292 - law of Nature,' lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule found out by reason by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same, and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 228 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void; 13.