Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 3T. Cadell and J. Butterworth, 1825 |
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... judges then made it a part of this rule that the parties should perform the award when published , and as disobedience to a rule of the court is contempt of the court , and punished summarily , as all other contempts , by attachment of ...
... judges then made it a part of this rule that the parties should perform the award when published , and as disobedience to a rule of the court is contempt of the court , and punished summarily , as all other contempts , by attachment of ...
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... judges , whose power is only an emanation of the royal prerogative . For the more speedy , universal , and impartial adminis- tration of justice between subject and subject , the law hath appointed a prodigious variety of courts , some ...
... judges , whose power is only an emanation of the royal prerogative . For the more speedy , universal , and impartial adminis- tration of justice between subject and subject , the law hath appointed a prodigious variety of courts , some ...
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... judges are bound to [ 26 ] take care of his interests , and they shall admit the best plea in his behalf that any one present can suggest . " But , as in the Roman law , " cum olim in usu fuisset , alterius nomine agi " non posse , sed ...
... judges are bound to [ 26 ] take care of his interests , and they shall admit the best plea in his behalf that any one present can suggest . " But , as in the Roman law , " cum olim in usu fuisset , alterius nomine agi " non posse , sed ...
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... judges , and none ad- mitted but such as were virtuous , learned , and sworn to do their duty . And many subsequent statutes have laid them under farther regulations . Or advocates , or ( as we generally call them ) counsel , there are ...
... judges , and none ad- mitted but such as were virtuous , learned , and sworn to do their duty . And many subsequent statutes have laid them under farther regulations . Or advocates , or ( as we generally call them ) counsel , there are ...
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... judges of the king's bench . It is in fact the privilege of the client speaking by his counsel , and rests on the broad principle , that no action is maintainable against the party for words spoken bond fide , and without express malice ...
... judges of the king's bench . It is in fact the privilege of the client speaking by his counsel , and rests on the broad principle , that no action is maintainable against the party for words spoken bond fide , and without express malice ...
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Page 31 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Page 119 - And these may be reduced to three principal or primary articles ; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of private property...
Page 371 - ... the trial by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the English law. And if it has so great an advantage over others in regulating civil property, how much must that advantage be heightened when it is applied to criminal cases...
Page 300 - And if there be two or more plaintiffs or defendants, and one or more of them shall die, if the cause of action shall survive to the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs, or against the surviving defendant or defendants...
Page 340 - Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Page 130 - ... by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions: for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, 11 wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Page 29 - ... whose honorarium was directed by a decree of the senate not to exceed in any case ten thousand sesterces, or about 80/. of English money.' And, in [ 29 ] order to encourage due freedom of speech in the lawful defence of their clients, and at the same time to give a check to the unseemly licentiousness of prostitute and illiberal men, (a few of whom may sometimes insinuate themselves even into the most...