The Law Quarterly Review, المجلد 18Frederick Pollock Stevens and Sons, 1902 |
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الصفحة 388 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
الصفحة 399 - ... act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by years of labor, research, and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for trustworthy evidence of what the law really is.
الصفحة 102 - Majesty's great seal have issued forth, by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law...
الصفحة 225 - Such jurisdiction shall only be exercised where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the person making default either has, or has had, since the date of the order, the means to pay...
الصفحة 387 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants ; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper and passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst it is every crime, folly and passion to which human nature is liable.
الصفحة 381 - Five great intellectual professions, relating to daily necessities of life, have hitherto existed - three exist necessarily, in every civilized nation: The Soldier's profession is to defend it. The Pastor's to teach it. The Physician's to keep it in health. The Lawyer's to enforce justice in it. The Merchant's to provide for it. And the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. 'On due occasion,' namely: The Soldier, rather than leave his post in battle.
الصفحة 381 - ... nation: The Soldier's profession is to defend it. The Pastor's to teach it. The Physician's to keep it in health. The Lawyer's to enforce justice in it. The Merchant's to provide for it. And the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. "On due occasion," namely: — The Soldier, rather than leave his post in battle.
الصفحة 260 - ... the testator or settlor, in the shares ; and consequently what is paid by the company as dividend goes to the tenant for life, and what is paid by the company to the shareholder as capital, or appropriated as an increase of the capital stock in the concern, enures to the benefit of all who are interested in the capital.
الصفحة 329 - Britain; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
الصفحة 102 - And that your Majesty would be pleased to remove the said soldiers and mariners, and that your people may not be so burdened in time to come. And that the aforesaid commissions for proceeding by martial law may be revoked and annulled. And that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth...