The Institutes of English Public Law: Embracing an Outline of General Jurisprudence: the Development of the British Constitution; Public International Law; and the Public Municipal Law of EnglandButterworths, 1873 - 455 pages |
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... of human society , which , it may be pre- sumed , would be impossible , had all men the same ideas 1 Human Understanding , Bk . ii . ch . 1 , § 2 . and the same desires ; hence also the impossibility of 2 ORIGIN OF LAW .
... of human society , which , it may be pre- sumed , would be impossible , had all men the same ideas 1 Human Understanding , Bk . ii . ch . 1 , § 2 . and the same desires ; hence also the impossibility of 2 ORIGIN OF LAW .
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... society as to give in all respects perfect satisfaction to any individual ; and hence , finally , the problem that has to be solved by the legislator and the jurist . If the same thing produces upon different indi- viduals different ...
... society as to give in all respects perfect satisfaction to any individual ; and hence , finally , the problem that has to be solved by the legislator and the jurist . If the same thing produces upon different indi- viduals different ...
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... society of his fellow - man ; but this companionship cannot exist except upon a certain understanding . Each has desires inimical to the in- terests of the rest , at the same time that his interests depend upon association with them ...
... society of his fellow - man ; but this companionship cannot exist except upon a certain understanding . Each has desires inimical to the in- terests of the rest , at the same time that his interests depend upon association with them ...
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... society , if not to the human species . " ' In the distribution of rights and obligations , ' says Bentham , the legislator should have for his end the happiness of society . Investigating more distinctly in what that happiness consists ...
... society , if not to the human species . " ' In the distribution of rights and obligations , ' says Bentham , the legislator should have for his end the happiness of society . Investigating more distinctly in what that happiness consists ...
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... society , and thus voluntarily relinquishes a portion of his free will . This abandonment of a portion of the natural rights of each member of a community , which we may term the inimical will , is a concession made 1 Theory of ...
... society , and thus voluntarily relinquishes a portion of his free will . This abandonment of a portion of the natural rights of each member of a community , which we may term the inimical will , is a concession made 1 Theory of ...
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Page 357 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 2 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 183 - That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 369 - ... to or for any voter, 1 See Appendix. 2 See Steph. Com., vol. iyt p. 271. • or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 182 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 432 - England by any other than a subject of his majesty, or to any person marrying a second time, whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time, or shall extend to any person who at the mate children.
Page 361 - ... such person shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return as their verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanor charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same...
Page 117 - NO FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 398 - A monopoly is an institution, or allowance by the king by his grant, commission, or otherwise to any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, of or for the sole buying, selling, making, working, or using of anything, whereby any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, are sought to be restrained of any freedom or liberty that they had before, or hindered in their lawful trade.
Page 399 - ... contrary to the law, nor mischievous to the State, by raising prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient...