The American Jurist, Volume 9Freeman & Bolles, 1833 - Law |
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... seems impossible that two opinions can be entertained on the subject . The radical and elementary idea of a law , is , that of a fixed and certain rule ; and when the rule is ascertained and fixed , it is very obvious that the ...
... seems impossible that two opinions can be entertained on the subject . The radical and elementary idea of a law , is , that of a fixed and certain rule ; and when the rule is ascertained and fixed , it is very obvious that the ...
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... seems to us , by solid reasons . It is the precise fact of the knowledge , which the debtor has of the peremp- tory exception , which he has acquired in his favor , that raises the presumption against the presumed verity of the judgment ...
... seems to us , by solid reasons . It is the precise fact of the knowledge , which the debtor has of the peremp- tory exception , which he has acquired in his favor , that raises the presumption against the presumed verity of the judgment ...
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... seems wholly unconscious that they are the living and unanswerable witnesses of the imperfec- tion of that very system , which is the object of his encomiums . A plain and direct course of proceeding startles and alarms a man , who has ...
... seems wholly unconscious that they are the living and unanswerable witnesses of the imperfec- tion of that very system , which is the object of his encomiums . A plain and direct course of proceeding startles and alarms a man , who has ...
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... seems to throw back a melancholy look on the masses of curious learning which have been rendered useless by these reforms . But if there are great names opposed to codification , there are at least as great in its favor . At the head of ...
... seems to throw back a melancholy look on the masses of curious learning which have been rendered useless by these reforms . But if there are great names opposed to codification , there are at least as great in its favor . At the head of ...
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... seems to me that the legal effect of that note and indorsement was , by the lex loci contractus , to give not a legal , but an equitable , in- terest to the indorsee , to be enforced by suit in the payee's name , in the same manner as ...
... seems to me that the legal effect of that note and indorsement was , by the lex loci contractus , to give not a legal , but an equitable , in- terest to the indorsee , to be enforced by suit in the payee's name , in the same manner as ...
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Page 270 - ... the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Page 278 - 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 278 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Page 441 - ... to compel the discovery of any property or thing in action, belonging to the defendant, and of any property, money, or thing in action, due to him, or held in trust for him...
Page 278 - It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy.
Page 274 - ... this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 251 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 340 - ... such power to punish contempts shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person in their presence, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice...
Page 274 - That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 267 - ... be preserved entire without endangering the stability of the general confederacy ; to remind them how indispensably necessary it is to establish the Federal Union on a fixed and permanent basis, and on principles acceptable to all its respective members...