To vindicate the policy of the law is no necessary part of the office of a judge ; but if it were, it would not be difficult to shew that the law in this respect has acted with its usual wisdom and humanity, with that true wisdom, and that real humanity,... The American Jurist: And Law Magazine - Page 3691843Full view - About this book
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...reasons which the law approves; and it is my duty to see whether those reasons exist in the present case. To vindicate the policy of the law is no necessary...the office of a judge; but if it were, it would not bo difficult to show that the law in this respect lias acted with its usual wisdom and humanity, with... | |
| S. M. Waddams - Law - 2003 - 276 pages
...(later Lord Stowell), of all the ecclesiastical court judges, had spoken most plainly on this point: To vindicate the policy of the law is no necessary...judge; but if it were, it would not be difficult to shew that the law in this respect has acted with its usual wisdom and humanity, with that true wisdom,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 712 pages
...reasons, which the law approves, and it is my duty to see whether those reasons exist in the present case. "To vindicate the policy of the law is no necessary...Judge; but if it were, it would' not be difficult to shew that the law in this respect has acted with its usual wisdom and humanity, with that true wisdom,... | |
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