The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union, Volume 2Roberts & Purvis, 1876 - Law |
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For it is the reason and mind of a wise Being , equally able to urge us to good and to deter us from evil . From our childhood we have learned to call such phrases as this : ' That a man appeals to justice and goes to law , ' and many ...
For it is the reason and mind of a wise Being , equally able to urge us to good and to deter us from evil . From our childhood we have learned to call such phrases as this : ' That a man appeals to justice and goes to law , ' and many ...
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For even then he had the light of reason , deduced from the nature of things , that incites to good actions , and dissuades from evil ones ; and which does not begin for the first time to be a law when it is drawn up in writing ...
For even then he had the light of reason , deduced from the nature of things , that incites to good actions , and dissuades from evil ones ; and which does not begin for the first time to be a law when it is drawn up in writing ...
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... or an established expectation of succeeding the ancestor in his rights of property ; notwithstanding that the author elsewhere asserts , and apparently with good reason , that no expectation , prospect or hope of acquiring an object ...
... or an established expectation of succeeding the ancestor in his rights of property ; notwithstanding that the author elsewhere asserts , and apparently with good reason , that no expectation , prospect or hope of acquiring an object ...
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His reasons were twofold : The first suit was instituted not by him , but by Mills Olcott , one of the trustees ; Webster came into it " at the eleventh hour . " The writ of error in this case was brought as a “ forlorn hope .
His reasons were twofold : The first suit was instituted not by him , but by Mills Olcott , one of the trustees ; Webster came into it " at the eleventh hour . " The writ of error in this case was brought as a “ forlorn hope .
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Probably for this reason , though the leading trustees had ample wealth , while the college practically had none , they took no steps by spending their own money to test these acts . But when they were in session in 1816 , John B.
Probably for this reason , though the leading trustees had ample wealth , while the college practically had none , they took no steps by spending their own money to test these acts . But when they were in session in 1816 , John B.
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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...