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Page 26
... common law ( mainly an unwritten customary system , founded ultimately on Germanic usages ) claims to supply its own needs by the extension of its own principles and analogies . Some of its expositors , as Blackstone , have shown an ...
... common law ( mainly an unwritten customary system , founded ultimately on Germanic usages ) claims to supply its own needs by the extension of its own principles and analogies . Some of its expositors , as Blackstone , have shown an ...
Page 30
... common law of England and our own country from the other law- systems of Western Europe . We have now to ask what was the Roman law which remained as a rule of action for the great mass of people in Gaul , Spain , and Italy , 30 THE ...
... common law of England and our own country from the other law- systems of Western Europe . We have now to ask what was the Roman law which remained as a rule of action for the great mass of people in Gaul , Spain , and Italy , 30 THE ...
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... common law - common ( that is ) to all parts of the kingdom , in distinction from the local usages , which in former times were very numerous , usages peculiar to one or another district of the country . This common law is in the main ...
... common law - common ( that is ) to all parts of the kingdom , in distinction from the local usages , which in former times were very numerous , usages peculiar to one or another district of the country . This common law is in the main ...
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... common law , seldom speaks of the civil law except in terms of disparagement . In general , he refers to it only to point out its inferiority to the com- mon law ; much like the Frenchman who avowed that he learned English in order to ...
... common law , seldom speaks of the civil law except in terms of disparagement . In general , he refers to it only to point out its inferiority to the com- mon law ; much like the Frenchman who avowed that he learned English in order to ...
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... common law of England . Blackstone repeatedly . alludes to efforts made in the time of the early Norman kings to introduce the civil law into England , and represents them as made by popish ecclesiastics in the interest of the papacy ...
... common law of England . Blackstone repeatedly . alludes to efforts made in the time of the early Norman kings to introduce the civil law into England , and represents them as made by popish ecclesiastics in the interest of the papacy ...
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Page 49 - ... conqueror of Italy, humbler of Germany, terror of the North — saw him account all his matchless victories poor compared with the triumph you are now in a condition to win — saw him contemn the fickleness of Fortune, while, in despite of her, he could pronounce his memorable boast, " I shall go down to posterity with the Code in my hand!