A Memoir of the Life of Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

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J. Murray, 1831 - 145 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 52 - Acts of Parliament are to be so construed as no man that is innocent or free from injury or wrong be, by a literal construction, punished or endamaged.
الصفحة 13 - When suffering from its effects, he was once overheard in the House of Lords to mutter, after some painful walks between the Woolsack and the Bar, "If I had known that these legs were one day to carry a Chancellor, I'd have taken better care of them when I was a lad.
الصفحة 67 - ... custom of London, or otherwise, out of his real or personal estate.
الصفحة 32 - The acting junior of the commission is a spectre I started at, but the sustaining the office alone I must and will refuse at all events. I will not give up the peace of my mind to any earthly consideration whatever. Bread and water are nectar and ambrosia when contrasted with the supremacy of a court of justice.
الصفحة 38 - Chancellor, the second to the Lord Treasurer, the third to the Lord President of his Majesty's Council, and the fourth to the...
الصفحة 64 - The opinion of conveyancers in all times, and their constant course, is of great weight They are to advise, and, if their opinion is not to prevail, must every case come to law ? No ; the received opinion ought to govern.
الصفحة 18 - Eden, 2«fi. fession of my faith, but from my principles, I bear a higher veneration. But very wide is the difference between dissenters and fanatics, whose canting and whose doctrines have no other tendency than to plunge their deluded votaries into the very abyss of bigotry, despair, and enthusiasm. And though, even against those unhappy and false pastors, I would not wish the spirit of persecution to go forth, yet are not these men to be discountenanced and discouraged whenever they properly come...
الصفحة 2 - ... of each tenant for life, to revoke the uses before limited to their respective sons in tail male, and to limit the estate to such sons for their lives.
الصفحة 52 - First, that the surest construction of a statute is by the rule and reason of the common law.
الصفحة 41 - Coke laid it down that seeds were minulce decimce, and the court of Exchequer did rightly in conforming with that rule, as it was established ; and therefore that case of seeds is to be considered as an exception to the general rule, and does not vary the rule itself. But this exception has never been carried further than to seeds, not to grain.

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