 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 956 pages
...twenty years' user, and yet be not at liberty to presume a licence. It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not in wrong. That, practically, has caused a series of trespasses to constitute... | |
 | George Frederick Wharton - Legal maxims - 1865 - 296 pages
...agreeably to the usages of Parliament and the rules of law and justice. It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right and not of wrong. Co. Litt. ti, 232 ; 3 Hawk. P. 0. 219 ; 3 Wils. 205 ; R. v. Paty, 2... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...law can give them."5 And again, " it is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to every thing which appears to have been established for a considerable...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not of wrong."6 This maxim applies as well 1 Judgm., Doe d. Gilbert ». Ross, 7... | |
 | Joseph Gerald Pease, Herbert Chitty - Fairs - 1899 - 264 pages
...has been lost ; and the law fully recognises this possibility. ' It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have been established for a considerable time, and to presume that what has been done has been done of right and not of wrong.'(^) 'It is a... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 888 pages
...origin, if any legal origin for it is reasonably possible (/<) ; for "it is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have been established for a considerable time and to presume that what has been done has been done of right and not of wrong " (i) ; and " it... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1282 pages
...twenty years' user, and yet be not at liberty to presume a licence. It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not in wrong. That, practically, has caused a series of trespasses to constituto... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 458 pages
...— PRESUMPTION OF RIGHT AND NOT WRONG. It is a maxim of the law to give effect to everything that appears to have been established for a considerable...of time and to presume that what has been done was done of right and not of wrong. [Doe d. Murphy v. Mulholland, 2 OSUC 115.] Berard v. Bruneau, 22 DLR... | |
 | Albert Martin Kales - Future interests - 1917 - 1496 pages
...twenty years' user, and yet be not at liberty to presume a license. It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not in wrong. That, practically, has caused a series of trespasses to constitute... | |
 | Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1448 pages
...in Gibson v. Doeg (27 LJ Ex. 37; 2 H. & N. 615), when he says, " It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not in wrong. That, practically, has caused a series of trespasses to constitute... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 972 pages
...the maxim Omnia J. ' praesumuntur rite et solenniter esse acta : "It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have...of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not of wrong. It is a most convenient thing that every supposition, not wholly irrational,... | |
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It is a maxim of the law of England to give effect to everything which appears to have been established for a considerable course of time, and to presume that what has been done was done of right, and not in wrong. 