The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Bind 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1832 |
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... House of Commons on Law Reform . We feel ourselves the more called upon to notice this subject , and express our dissent , as the speech in question abounds in the most excellent suggestions for the im- provement of the law of evidence ...
... House of Commons on Law Reform . We feel ourselves the more called upon to notice this subject , and express our dissent , as the speech in question abounds in the most excellent suggestions for the im- provement of the law of evidence ...
Side 17
... House of Commons , when it was stated that the defendant could have substantiated a satisfactory answer to the charge , had not his witnesses been disqualified by being joined with him as defendants in the suit ; and an opinion seemed ...
... House of Commons , when it was stated that the defendant could have substantiated a satisfactory answer to the charge , had not his witnesses been disqualified by being joined with him as defendants in the suit ; and an opinion seemed ...
Side 18
... House of Commons would have been occupied in a manner more consistent with its proper functions , and more advantageous to the public , if , instead of canvassing the merits of the parties in a particular case , it had been employed in ...
... House of Commons would have been occupied in a manner more consistent with its proper functions , and more advantageous to the public , if , instead of canvassing the merits of the parties in a particular case , it had been employed in ...
Side 33
... house of Tudor do not appear to have been in the practice of exercising an improper influence over the judges , though the bench was in general very ready to forward the designs of the court . In the reign of Henry VI . the judges ...
... house of Tudor do not appear to have been in the practice of exercising an improper influence over the judges , though the bench was in general very ready to forward the designs of the court . In the reign of Henry VI . the judges ...
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... House of Commons , however ( for the convenience of its members ) , usually prints a copy ; which is then pirated and sold by the booksellers ; and is thus , by a sort of breach of privilege , obtained by the public , whose money has ...
... House of Commons , however ( for the convenience of its members ) , usually prints a copy ; which is then pirated and sold by the booksellers ; and is thus , by a sort of breach of privilege , obtained by the public , whose money has ...
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Side 92 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Side 93 - Sir. you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking. or what you call knowing a cause to be bad. must be from reasoning. must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Side 155 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance, and succession to lands, rents and goods and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Side 93 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself, may convince the Judge to whom you urge it: and if it does convince him, why then, Sir, you are wrong, and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the Judge's opinion.
Side 211 - And therefore, I'll not have a chambermaid That ties her shoes, or any meaner office, But such whose fathers were right worshipful. 'Tis a rich man's pride! there having ever been More than a feud, a strange antipathy, Between us and true gentry.
Side 382 - ... infirmities. When the court fell into a steady course of using the law against all kinds of offenders, this man was taken into the king's business ; and had the part of drawing and perusal of almost all indictments and informations that were then to be prosecuted with the pleadings thereon if any were special ; and he had the settling of the large pleadings in the quo warranto against London.
Side 208 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Side 228 - To give judgment privately, is to put an -end to reports ; and to put an end to reports, is to put an end to the law of England.
Side 94 - He makes not a Trojan siege of a suit, but seeks to bring it to a set battle in a speedy trial. Yet sometimes suits are continued by their difficulty, the potency and stomach of the parties, without any default in the lawyer.
Side 106 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme.