 | Alfred Conkling - 1864 - 950 pages
...CHAP. 8. whereas, according to the ordinary use of language, it could hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and not of themselves laws. The laws of a state are most usually understood what constatutes the to mean... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 700 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at...are, and are not of themselves laws. They are often it.examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found to be either... | |
 | 1880 - 554 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language it will hardly bo contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, aud qualified by the courts themselves,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are at most...by the courts themselves whenever they are found to Jewettvs. Hone. be either defective, or ill founded, or otherwise incorrect The laws of a state are... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1915 - 990 pages
...Federal Supreme Court said " In the ordinary use of language it would hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are at most...what the laws are, and are not, of themselves, laws." Most judges from the earliest record we have on this question down to the present time have declared... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1880 - 638 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves,... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. Ill the ordinary use of language it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are. at most, only evidence of what the laws are. and not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves,... | |
 | James Barr Ames - 1881 - 932 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at...ill-founded, or otherwise incorrect. The laws of a State are nore usually understood to mean the rules and enactments promulgated by the legislative authority thereof,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 836 pages
...decisions of the courts constitute laws, adding that, at most, they are only evidence of what the law is, and are not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined,...either defective or ill-founded or otherwise incorrect. His views were that the laws of a State are more usually understood to be the rules and enactments... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1302 pages
...decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the e protected decided, when declaring that the arc, and are not, of themselves, laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts... | |
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In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws. 
