Ten Thousand A-year, Volume 1Little, Brown, & Company, 1889 - Legal stories |
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Page 422 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever : But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Page 456 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 459 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 422 - My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of His correction: for whom the Lord loveth He correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Page 107 - Champerty is a species of maintenance and punished in the- same manner ; being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum partire, to divide the land or other matter sued for between them, if they prevail at law : whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's suit at his own expense.
Page 344 - Strong feeling is naturally contagious ; and if, as the wise man observes, as ' iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend...
Page 458 - When the ear heard her, then it blessed her ; and when the eye saw her, it gave witness to her : " Because she delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Page 11 - Oxford Street, stony-hearted step-mother ! thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children...
Page 309 - Ejectment mentioned, or to some part thereof : And I, being sued in this action as a casual ejector only, and having no claim or title to the same, do advise you to appear...
Page 299 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying, " Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him.