The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the N.H. Historical Society, June 13, 1883 |
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... relations , and in our private life . The spirit which pervades this great body of statutory and customary law , and in which it is administered , is as natural and vitalizing in jurisprudence as in the human animal . Motion is the law ...
... relations , and in our private life . The spirit which pervades this great body of statutory and customary law , and in which it is administered , is as natural and vitalizing in jurisprudence as in the human animal . Motion is the law ...
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... relation to crimes the Mo- saic code . They swept away the whole English law of descent and distribution , and ... relation to divorce , and put it on an entirely new foot- ing by adopting the third part of the mishna , or oral or com ...
... relation to crimes the Mo- saic code . They swept away the whole English law of descent and distribution , and ... relation to divorce , and put it on an entirely new foot- ing by adopting the third part of the mishna , or oral or com ...
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... relation to Exeter , was not only sensible and wise , but far in advance of what we should expect . And from the little we know , we have no rea- son for thinking that the action of these courts was not equally sensible and just . There ...
... relation to Exeter , was not only sensible and wise , but far in advance of what we should expect . And from the little we know , we have no rea- son for thinking that the action of these courts was not equally sensible and just . There ...
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... relation to the payment of half - entry fee was ever recognized in New Hampshire . But by the act of June 21 , 1701 , when the default was taken off , before the jury were dismissed , the defendant was compelled to pay " down " to the ...
... relation to the payment of half - entry fee was ever recognized in New Hampshire . But by the act of June 21 , 1701 , when the default was taken off , before the jury were dismissed , the defendant was compelled to pay " down " to the ...
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... relations , was a Massachusetts man . Under his lead Dover became famous in the olden times for the alacrity with which its people at the beck of the Bay colony pursued the witches . At some time in 1656 , Robert Coutch called Goodwife ...
... relations , was a Massachusetts man . Under his lead Dover became famous in the olden times for the alacrity with which its people at the beck of the Bay colony pursued the witches . At some time in 1656 , Robert Coutch called Goodwife ...
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Page 4 - ... it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof, that the...
Page 11 - ... or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same, established by a general court, and sufficiently published ; or in case of the defect of a law, in any particular case, by the Word of God.
Page 4 - Court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labour, feasting or any other way, upon any such accounts as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shillings, as a fine to the county.
Page 10 - No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor...
Page 49 - Cloth of, a contrary colour to their cloathes, and sewed upon their upper Garments, on the outside of their Arm, or on their back in open view. And if any person or persons having been convicted and sentenced for such offence, shall at...
Page 45 - ... in rayling and scolding, it is therefore ordered, that all such persons convicted, before any Court or magistrate that hath propper cognizance of the...
Page 25 - Majesty's name, to take these vagabond Quakers, Anna Coleman, Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose, and make them fast to the cart's tail ; and drawing the cart through your several towns, to whip them upon their naked backs, not exceeding ten stripes apiece on each of them, in each town ; and so convey them from constable to constable till they are out of this jurisdiction, as you will answer it at your peril ; and this shall be your warrant.
Page 9 - Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye general! good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission...
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Page 81 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.