A History of English Law, Volume 6Methuen & Company, 1924 - Law |
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... FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL BELGIAN ACADEMY ; FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY VOLUME VI To say truth , although it is not necessary for counsel to know what the history of a point is , but to know how it now stands resolved , yet it is ...
... FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL BELGIAN ACADEMY ; FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY VOLUME VI To say truth , although it is not necessary for counsel to know what the history of a point is , but to know how it now stands resolved , yet it is ...
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... foreign policy 164 The political , constitutional , and religious environment 165-196 The settlement made by the Convention Parliament and its successors 165-174 What legislative Acts were to be valid 165-166 New legislation How the ...
... foreign policy 164 The political , constitutional , and religious environment 165-196 The settlement made by the Convention Parliament and its successors 165-174 What legislative Acts were to be valid 165-166 New legislation How the ...
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... Foreign trade and native industry 323-341 Means of communication 324 The coinage 324-325 Regulation of foreign and domestic trade 325-328 Encouragement of native industries 328-331 Maintenance of quality of goods 331-332 Enforcement of ...
... Foreign trade and native industry 323-341 Means of communication 324 The coinage 324-325 Regulation of foreign and domestic trade 325-328 Encouragement of native industries 328-331 Maintenance of quality of goods 331-332 Enforcement of ...
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... foreign policy , and by the action of some of the bishops and clergy who , not only preached high prerogative doctrines , but even seemed , in their fondness for pomp and ritual , to be inclining towards Rome . We shall see that , as ...
... foreign policy , and by the action of some of the bishops and clergy who , not only preached high prerogative doctrines , but even seemed , in their fondness for pomp and ritual , to be inclining towards Rome . We shall see that , as ...
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... foreign " The firm convictions of his mind were alike proof against arguments which he was unable to understand , and unalterable by the impression of passing events , which slipped by him unnoticed , " Gardiner , op . cit . v 318 . 2 ...
... foreign " The firm convictions of his mind were alike proof against arguments which he was unable to understand , and unalterable by the impression of passing events , which slipped by him unnoticed , " Gardiner , op . cit . v 318 . 2 ...
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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.
Page 671 - June (1677) all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 356 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
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.
Page 163 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 367 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 262 - To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...
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.