The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, 17. köideButterworths, 1864 |
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... evidence laid before them . † As to the character and particularity of the personal knowledge which each juror was bound to possess , the rule was not very strict or well - defined ; it being understood that where direct evidence was ...
... evidence laid before them . † As to the character and particularity of the personal knowledge which each juror was bound to possess , the rule was not very strict or well - defined ; it being understood that where direct evidence was ...
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... evidence could only be obtained from women or children , who of course could not act as jurors ; while in other instances the circumstances were witnessed by only one or two observers . Thus the practice of enforcement gradually fell ...
... evidence could only be obtained from women or children , who of course could not act as jurors ; while in other instances the circumstances were witnessed by only one or two observers . Thus the practice of enforcement gradually fell ...
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... evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords , appears to have been fully verified . “ I am not so much afraid of the wholly unprofessional magistrate , " observed Mr. Justice Coleridge , " who might perhaps refer ...
... evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords , appears to have been fully verified . “ I am not so much afraid of the wholly unprofessional magistrate , " observed Mr. Justice Coleridge , " who might perhaps refer ...
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... evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords , are very apposite . " I have myself , within my own experience , known some such fearful instances of injustice on the refusal by judges of great eminence and learning , and ...
... evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords , are very apposite . " I have myself , within my own experience , known some such fearful instances of injustice on the refusal by judges of great eminence and learning , and ...
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... evidence before the House of Lords ' Committee , - " Disputes respecting civil rights - rights to property - are of a complicated nature , in- volving difficult propositions of law and fact , from which the administration of criminal ...
... evidence before the House of Lords ' Committee , - " Disputes respecting civil rights - rights to property - are of a complicated nature , in- volving difficult propositions of law and fact , from which the administration of criminal ...
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Page 48 - ... fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender shall be convicted...
Page 47 - States shall then be at peace with such belligerent. ) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly being concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship...
Page 48 - Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, or by changing those on board for other guns, or by the addition of any equipment for war, increase or augment, or procure to be increased or augmented, or shall be knowingly concerned in increasing or augmenting...
Page 48 - ... foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people, or belonging to the subjects or citizens of any such prince or state, colony, district, or people, the same being at war with any foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel...
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Page 357 - ARBITRATION.— Russell's Treatise on the Duty and Power of an Arbitrator, and the La"w of Submissions and Awards ; with an Appendix of Forms, and of the Statutes relating to Arbitration. By FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq., MA, Barrister-at-Law.
Page 133 - 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.
Page 186 - Dictionary of Jurisprudence, explaining the Technical Words and Phrases employed in the several Departments of English Law ; including the various Legal Terms used in Commercial Transactions. Together with an Explanatory as well as Literal Translation of the Latin Maxims contained in the Writings of the Ancient and Modern Commentators. Sixth Edition.
Page 153 - The negroes prefer a glass necklace to that gold which polite nations so highly value. Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians.
Page 138 - July 16, 1862, it was provided " that the laws, of the State in which the court shall be held shall be the rules of decision as to the competency of witnesses in the courts of the United States, in trials at Common Law, in Equity, and Admiralty.