 As to the certainty of the law mentioned by Mr. Dunning, it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it ; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that it costs much money to know what it is, even in the last...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 201by Michigan. Supreme Court, George C. Gibbs, Randolph Manning, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hoyt Post, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, Henry Allen Chaney, Marquis B. Eaton, William Dudley Fuller, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper, Herschel Bouton Lazell - 1874Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 550 lehte
...Mr. Dunning, it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that every body knew it; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that...money to know what it is even in the last resort. (1) "Is it not a mockery," said Mr. Livingston in his report on the Louisiana Penal Code " to refer... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 672 lehte
...Mr. Dnnning, it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it ; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that it costs muck money to know what it is, even in the last resort. It was a necessary ground of the decision in... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 lehte
...Mr. Dunning, it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so' curtain that everybody knew it ; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that...necessary ground of the decision in that case, that a partv may be ignorant of the law. The rule is that ignorance of the law shall not excuse a man, or... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1876 - 212 lehte
...Mr. Dunning, it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that...money to know what it is, even in the last resort." His conclusion is that the transaction "contains nothing either immoral or contrary to justice." He... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1910 - 688 lehte
...then. He said: "It would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that,...money to know what it is, even in the last resort." Said Mr. Justice Maule, in Martindale v. Fellcner, 2 CB 719 : "There is no presumption in this country... | |
 | 1920 - 1086 lehte
...systematic form will simplify the law. Lord Mansfield in Jones v. Randall, Cowp. 37, said : ' ' The law is so uncertain that it costs much money to know what it is, even in the last resort." " The glorious uncertainty of the common law " has become a proverb. One writer says " let any lawyer... | |
 | 1909 - 1164 lehte
...lie said: "It would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew It; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that...money to know what It Is, even in the last resort." Said Mr. Justice Maule, in Martindale v. Felkuer, 2 CB 719: "There Is no presumption in this country... | |
 | 1887 - 542 lehte
...school seems to be at variance with Lord Mansfield, who in Jones v. Randall, Cowper, 37, said: "The law is so uncertain that it costs much money to know what it is, even in the last resort." The commonest and most important questions are so uncertain and unsettled that England, the home of... | |
 | 1894 - 1120 lehte
...of the law it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it. The misfortune is that it is so uncertain that it costs much money to know what it is even to the last resort:" Jones f. Randall, Cowp. 37. Whatever may have been the MONKV PA!I> 11V MI.VTAKK... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - 1895 - 786 lehte
...years ago that "it would be very hard upon the profession if the law was so certain that everybody knew it; the misfortune is that it is so uncertain that...money to know what it is, even in the last resort." And Justice Maule remarks: "If everybody knew the law there would be no need of courts of appeal, whose... | |
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