The Practice and Courts of Civil and Ecclesiastical Law: And the Statements in Mr. Bouverie's Speech on the Subject, Examined; with Observations on the Value of the Study of Civil and International Law in this Country; in a Letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone |
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... examination . It recommended the alteration of the Testamen- tary Law respecting Personalty , and the assimi- lating it to the Law of Realty - a recommenda- tion which has subsequently been carried into effect by legislative enactment ...
... examination . It recommended the alteration of the Testamen- tary Law respecting Personalty , and the assimi- lating it to the Law of Realty - a recommenda- tion which has subsequently been carried into effect by legislative enactment ...
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... examination , during which he declared it to be his firm opinion that the truth was better elicited by the mode of pro- ceeding in the Courts of Doctors ' Commons than in any other Courts in the kingdom . The pas- sages in his evidence ...
... examination , during which he declared it to be his firm opinion that the truth was better elicited by the mode of pro- ceeding in the Courts of Doctors ' Commons than in any other Courts in the kingdom . The pas- sages in his evidence ...
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... examination that where it failed to do justice , it was in consequence of restrictions which the bygone jealousy of the Common Law had imposed upon its jurisdiction , and they re- moved those restrictions . This was a real reform on ...
... examination that where it failed to do justice , it was in consequence of restrictions which the bygone jealousy of the Common Law had imposed upon its jurisdiction , and they re- moved those restrictions . This was a real reform on ...
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... examination is con- ducted by a sworn officer of the Court . Due notice is delivered to the adverse party of the names of the witnesses about to be produced against him , and of the particular parts of the plea which they will appear to ...
... examination is con- ducted by a sworn officer of the Court . Due notice is delivered to the adverse party of the names of the witnesses about to be produced against him , and of the particular parts of the plea which they will appear to ...
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... examination and a jury has been found to answer the end of its institution , viz . that of cheaply and expeditiously eliciting the truth in civil cases ? In fact , are not the most important cases de- cided without the intervention of ...
... examination and a jury has been found to answer the end of its institution , viz . that of cheaply and expeditiously eliciting the truth in civil cases ? In fact , are not the most important cases de- cided without the intervention of ...
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Page 166 - ... good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual, in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged, in the most favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the said...
Page 85 - God's gifts diminished from such as by faith, and rightly, do receive the Sacraments ministered unto them; which be effectual, because of Christ's institution and promise, although they be ministered by evil men. Nevertheless, it appertaineth to the discipline of the Church, that inquiry be made of evil Ministers, and that they be accused by those that have knowledge of their offences ; and finally, being found guilty, by just judgment be deposed.
Page 138 - It is to be recollected that this is a Court of the Law of Nations, though sitting here under the authority of the King of Great Britain. It belongs to other nations as well as to our own ; and what foreigners have a right to demand from it is the administration of the...
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Page 84 - ... person or persons, to declare and determine all such doubts, and to administer all such offices and duties, as to their rooms spiritual doth appertain, for the due administration whereof, and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection, the king's most noble progenitors, and the antecessors of the nobles of this realm, have sufficiently endowed the said Church, both with honour and possessions...
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Page 100 - I am loth to quote, yet inasmuch as the laws of all nations are doubtless raised out of the ruins of the civil law, as all governments are sprung out of the ruins of the Roman Empire, it must be owned that the principles of our law are borrowed from the civil law and therefore grounded upon the same reason in many things.
Page 166 - College, whereby the constitution, progress, improvement and business thereof may be suffered or be hindered, in such case, we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, assign, constitute, authorize and appoint the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of Great Britain, the Lord Keeper of our Privy Seal, and our two principal Secretaries of State for the time being, to be Visitors of the said College, with full power and authority...
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Page 101 - Courts, and were associated in the minds of the people partly with the exactions(^) of Empson and Dudley in the preceding reign, and partly with the authority of the Pope. Severe blows were dealt at the former, which were aimed solely at the latter system. "The books of Civil and Canon Law were set aside to be devoured with worms as savouring too much of Popery/' says the learned Ayliffe in his history of the University of Oxford during the Visitation of 1547.