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... persons who are unable to have the advantages of either school or office instruction . The time has arrived in America in which a person who wishes to succeed must be able to think as well as act . The law offers a large and expanding ...
... persons who are unable to have the advantages of either school or office instruction . The time has arrived in America in which a person who wishes to succeed must be able to think as well as act . The law offers a large and expanding ...
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... person to familiarize himself with the general principles of the laws to which he is subject . But there are other and higher motives which should induce each citizen to acquaint himself with the laws of our land — a land , " perhaps ...
... person to familiarize himself with the general principles of the laws to which he is subject . But there are other and higher motives which should induce each citizen to acquaint himself with the laws of our land — a land , " perhaps ...
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... person can , by industry and application become proficient in the law . Our authority for this statement is the fact that thousands of eminent persons - attorneys and judges- began with no further qualifications . Sec . 9. THE TIME ...
... person can , by industry and application become proficient in the law . Our authority for this statement is the fact that thousands of eminent persons - attorneys and judges- began with no further qualifications . Sec . 9. THE TIME ...
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... person of birth or condition may be learned in a single year , without neglecting his other improvements . " Another eminent authority has said : " If one shall enter upon the study of the law under the impression that the extent of his ...
... person of birth or condition may be learned in a single year , without neglecting his other improvements . " Another eminent authority has said : " If one shall enter upon the study of the law under the impression that the extent of his ...
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... persons desire to know if they can continue in their ordinary daily vocations and at the same time study law in the ... person , young or old , working for himself or for others , may , if he is energetic , find suf- ficient leisure ...
... persons desire to know if they can continue in their ordinary daily vocations and at the same time study law in the ... person , young or old , working for himself or for others , may , if he is energetic , find suf- ficient leisure ...
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Page 228 - They are not : 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 117 - From this method of interpreting laws (says Blackstone) by the reason of them, arises what we call equity;" which is thus defined by Grotius, "the correction of that, wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient...
Page 262 - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms; and their definition is (v) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant; or in some cases may be held by prescription, which as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant.
Page 429 - It is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail; that always in such cases, 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.
Page 234 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 186 - In this, and similar cases, the Legislature alone can, and indeed frequently does, interpose, and compel the individual to acquiesce. But how does it interpose and compel? Not by absolutely stripping the subject of his property in an arbitrary manner ; but by giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained.
Page 198 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen Victoria, her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God ! Affirmation.
Page 526 - It keeps all inferior jurisdictions within the bounds of their authority, and may either remove their proceedings to be determined here, or prohibit their progress below. It superintends all civil corporations in the kingdom. It commands magistrates and others to do what their duty requires, in every case where there is no other specific remedy. It protects the liberty of the subject, by speedy and summary interposition.
Page 317 - Temple speaks, a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children, and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 165 - The absolute rights of man, considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil, and with power of choosing those measures which appear to him to be most desirable, are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated the natural liberty of mankind.