The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, 24. köideSaunders and Benning, 1840 |
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... existed so much as a suspicion of any corrupt or tyrannical exertion of authority . We now come to Barretry , Maintenance , and Champerty . The offence of Common Barretry consists of a series of acts tending to the disturbance of the ...
... existed so much as a suspicion of any corrupt or tyrannical exertion of authority . We now come to Barretry , Maintenance , and Champerty . The offence of Common Barretry consists of a series of acts tending to the disturbance of the ...
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... existed from early times to the present hour . I am not here to defend the law , but to administer it . Perhaps the lawgiver may have laid down a rule not always infallible ; he may in some instances have diverted hereditary wealth from ...
... existed from early times to the present hour . I am not here to defend the law , but to administer it . Perhaps the lawgiver may have laid down a rule not always infallible ; he may in some instances have diverted hereditary wealth from ...
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... existed . An attorney of the name of Underwood had forged the will of a person at Bath , who died intestate ; he had sworn to his being sent for , to his seeing the tes- tator , and to the making and execution of the will , describing ...
... existed . An attorney of the name of Underwood had forged the will of a person at Bath , who died intestate ; he had sworn to his being sent for , to his seeing the tes- tator , and to the making and execution of the will , describing ...
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... existed ; and it appears to us that in that case the aboli- tion of tenures , which would have deprived the idiot and lu- natic of the guardianship of the lord of the fee , would have thrown upon the crown the duty of providing persons ...
... existed ; and it appears to us that in that case the aboli- tion of tenures , which would have deprived the idiot and lu- natic of the guardianship of the lord of the fee , would have thrown upon the crown the duty of providing persons ...
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... existed with respect to the treatment and care of the children . When that was at an end , it was thought fit by a particular statute to enable the father to make an appointment of a guardian for his children , giving to him the power ...
... existed with respect to the treatment and care of the children . When that was at an end , it was thought fit by a particular statute to enable the father to make an appointment of a guardian for his children , giving to him the power ...
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Page 56 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 404 - An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 236 - An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively...
Page 419 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery...
Page 91 - The ages of male and female are different for different purposes. A male at twelve years old may take the oath of allegiance ; at fourteen is at years of discretion, and therefore may consent or disagree to marriage, may choose his guardian, and, if his discretion be actually proved, may make his testament of his personal estate...
Page 40 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 422 - ... contrary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided; whereby, and by force of the statutes in that case made and provided, the said vessel &c. became and was forfeited.
Page 323 - Ed. lived through the times and was mixed up, heart and soul, in the matters he speaks of, 'if any person be desirous of having an adequate idea of the mischievous effects which have been produced in this country by the French Revolution and all its attendant horrors, he should attempt some reforms on humane and liberal principles.
Page 404 - P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation, on which it is founded, never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 64 - Burnet, with as much gravity as if he believed every word he was saying. Both Henry and Thomas were saving men, yet both died very poor. The latter at one time possessed £200,000 ; the other had a considerable fortune. The Earl alone has died wealthy. It is saving, not getting, that is the mother of riches. They all had wit. The Earl's was crack-brained, and sometimes caustic ; Henry's was of the very kindest, best-humoured, and gayest sort that ever cheered society; that of Lord Erskine was moody...