The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union, Volume 2Roberts & Purvis, 1876 - Law |
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... court unless he had grown up in the atmosphere of the statutes and the practice of that jurisdiction . It is simply impossible for the judges to have this knowledge of the local law which they are so often called upon to interpret .
... court unless he had grown up in the atmosphere of the statutes and the practice of that jurisdiction . It is simply impossible for the judges to have this knowledge of the local law which they are so often called upon to interpret .
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The feeble health of Plumer had driven him out of practice ; Smith's vote , as ex - officio trustee , in 1809 , had delivered Wheelock over to his enemies ; and Mason was the relative and intimate friend of Judge Marsh , one of the ...
The feeble health of Plumer had driven him out of practice ; Smith's vote , as ex - officio trustee , in 1809 , had delivered Wheelock over to his enemies ; and Mason was the relative and intimate friend of Judge Marsh , one of the ...
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Mason was from Connecticut , but read law and commenced practice in Vermont . He was six feet and seven inches in height , and proportionately large in other respects . His intellectual exceeded his physical stature .
Mason was from Connecticut , but read law and commenced practice in Vermont . He was six feet and seven inches in height , and proportionately large in other respects . His intellectual exceeded his physical stature .
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... that corporations could be dissolved by act of Parliament “ had been long exercised in practice , " in Great Britain and the colonies , citing the Land Bank and South Sea schemes ; the statute declaring all corporations and licenses ...
... that corporations could be dissolved by act of Parliament “ had been long exercised in practice , " in Great Britain and the colonies , citing the Land Bank and South Sea schemes ; the statute declaring all corporations and licenses ...
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For years engaged in the active practice of the law , he commenced to write his work on Marriage and Divorce , which he finished without nominally withdrawing from the active duties of his profession . But when he made engagements to ...
For years engaged in the active practice of the law , he commenced to write his work on Marriage and Divorce , which he finished without nominally withdrawing from the active duties of his profession . But when he made engagements to ...
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Page 236 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not 30 the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 235 - Surely every medicine is an innovation ; and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils : for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 643 - ... 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 288 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 236 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things which have long gone together are as it were confederate within themselves : whereas new things piece not so well ; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconfbrmity.
Page 718 - USCA § 379), it is provided that "the writ of injunction shall not be granted by any court of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a state, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.
Page 405 - Of the parties to the action, those who are united in interest must be joined as plaintiffs or defendants; but if the consent of any one,' who should have been joined as plaintiff, cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint...
Page 222 - ... inherit us : our looks are strange : And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. Or else the island princes over-bold Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
Page 236 - It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 320 - June, no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain or in part...