A Selection of Legal Maxims: Classified and Illustrated |
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... Maxim has either been cited , or directly stated to apply . It has , however , been necessary to refer to many other instances in which no such specific reference has been made , but which seem clearly to fall within the principle of ...
... Maxim has either been cited , or directly stated to apply . It has , however , been necessary to refer to many other instances in which no such specific reference has been made , but which seem clearly to fall within the principle of ...
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... Maxim . Of the above Collections , as also of those by Noy ( 9th Ed . ) , and Branch ( 5th Ed . ) , use has , in preparing the following List , been freely made . Some few Maxims from the Civil Law have also been inserted , the Digest ...
... Maxim . Of the above Collections , as also of those by Noy ( 9th Ed . ) , and Branch ( 5th Ed . ) , use has , in preparing the following List , been freely made . Some few Maxims from the Civil Law have also been inserted , the Digest ...
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... maxim , " the king never dies , " founded manifestly in no- tions of expediency , and in the apprehension of danger which would result from an interregnum , does not hold in regard to other corpo- rations sole . A parson , for instance ...
... maxim , " the king never dies , " founded manifestly in no- tions of expediency , and in the apprehension of danger which would result from an interregnum , does not hold in regard to other corpo- rations sole . A parson , for instance ...
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... maxim — that the king can do no wrong ; and the Lord Chancellor , in deciding against the petitioner , intimated an opinion , that since the sovereign is clearly not liable for the consequences of his own personal negli- gence , he ...
... maxim — that the king can do no wrong ; and the Lord Chancellor , in deciding against the petitioner , intimated an opinion , that since the sovereign is clearly not liable for the consequences of his own personal negli- gence , he ...
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... maxim that the king can- not do wrong it follows , as a necessary consequence , that the king cannot authorize wrong . For to authorize a wrong to be done is to do a wrong , inasmuch as the wrongful act when done becomes in law the act ...
... maxim that the king can- not do wrong it follows , as a necessary consequence , that the king cannot authorize wrong . For to authorize a wrong to be done is to do a wrong , inasmuch as the wrongful act when done becomes in law the act ...
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Page 80 - ... at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 742 - The objection that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed : but it is founded in general principles of policy which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say so.
Page 894 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action, to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress, or to bring such action, shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 296 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 81 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Page 313 - A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 385 - ... unless it shall appear that the same was enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly given or made for that purpose by deed or writing.
Page 914 - ... the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought ; and the amount so recovered, after deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned parties in such shares as the jury by their verdict shall find and direct.
Page 856 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
Page 372 - ... it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbor, who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there, harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property...