The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union, Volume 2Roberts & Purvis, 1876 - Law |
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... Story's books bear the marks of haste , and want of thorough research . His style is by no means of that compact , terse , and faultless character which ample time would have enabled him to perfect . Too often the principles of law he ...
... Story's books bear the marks of haste , and want of thorough research . His style is by no means of that compact , terse , and faultless character which ample time would have enabled him to perfect . Too often the principles of law he ...
Page 87
... Story had summed up the doctrine of the jurisdiction in divorce cases by saying : " Upon the whole , the doctrine now firmly established in America upon the subject of divorce is , that the law of the actual bona fide domicil of the ...
... Story had summed up the doctrine of the jurisdiction in divorce cases by saying : " Upon the whole , the doctrine now firmly established in America upon the subject of divorce is , that the law of the actual bona fide domicil of the ...
Page 142
... Story on the Constitution , vol . 2 , p . 387 , et seq . , and the reasons assigned are substantially as follows : I. That the appellate powers are of so high and important a nature , that it is " unadvisable " to combine them with ...
... Story on the Constitution , vol . 2 , p . 387 , et seq . , and the reasons assigned are substantially as follows : I. That the appellate powers are of so high and important a nature , that it is " unadvisable " to combine them with ...
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... Story's Equity Jurisprudence , containing over Eight Hundred Ques- tions . Being an Analysis , classified by Subjects and References , and an Index . Designed for the use of Universities , Colleges and Law Schools , and for private use ...
... Story's Equity Jurisprudence , containing over Eight Hundred Ques- tions . Being an Analysis , classified by Subjects and References , and an Index . Designed for the use of Universities , Colleges and Law Schools , and for private use ...
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... Story had not yet recanted his opinion adverse to the plaintiffs ; and the remaining four members of the court were equally divided . At the opening of the court on the morning of March 13 , 1818 , Judge Marshall announced , in general ...
... Story had not yet recanted his opinion adverse to the plaintiffs ; and the remaining four members of the court were equally divided . At the opening of the court on the morning of March 13 , 1818 , Judge Marshall announced , in general ...
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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...