A History of English Law, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1923 |
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Page 518 - As one of the earliest as well as one of the most important recognitions of the work, I quote some of its judgments.
Page 66 - ... separati agri apud eos nihil est, ñeque longius anno remanere uno in loco incolendi causa licet...
Page 162 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell, though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Page 530 - ... from the end of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth. The thoughts of Johnson towards the close of his existence reverted to its opening scenes.
Page 404 - English lawyers, that, whenever men act in concert for a common purpose, they tend to create a body which, from no fiction of law, but from the very nature of things, differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted.
Page 271 - That an English writer of the time of Henry III. should have been able to put off on his countrymen as a compendium of pure English law a treatise of which the entire form and a third of the contents were directly borrowed from the Corpus Juris...
Page 44 - Ceteris servis, non in nostrum morem descriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur. Suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris aut vestis, ut colono, injungit: et servus hactenus paret; cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page 84 - That every man of them who has heard the orders should be aidful to others, as well in tracing as in pursuit, so long as the track is known ; and after the track has failed him, that one man be found where there is a large population, as well as from one tithing where a less population is, either to ride or to go (unless there be need of more) thither where most need is, and as they all have ordained.
Page 162 - Also he caused to be written how much land his archbishops had, and his suffragan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls ; and — though I may narrate somewhat prolixly — what or how much each man had, who was a holder of land in England, — in land or in cattle, and how much money it might be worth. So very narrowly he caused it to be traced out that there was not one single hide, nor one
Page 24 - I, then, Alfred, king, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my "witan...