A General Treatise on Statutes: Their Rules of Construction, and the Proper Boundaries of Legislation and of Judicial InterpretationW. Gould, 1885 - 693 pages |
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Page 55
... action appear in the declaration or com- plaint to have accrued upwards of six years before the commence- ment of the action , a defendant can only have the advantage of it by plea , or answer.a But in pleading in a case which is to be ...
... action appear in the declaration or com- plaint to have accrued upwards of six years before the commence- ment of the action , a defendant can only have the advantage of it by plea , or answer.a But in pleading in a case which is to be ...
Page 67
... action , must proceed with competent power , if required , to correct the error or subdue the oppression of the other branches of government.c But to insure a complete admin- istration of public justice through this department , and to ...
... action , must proceed with competent power , if required , to correct the error or subdue the oppression of the other branches of government.c But to insure a complete admin- istration of public justice through this department , and to ...
Page 72
... action founded upon a statute be directed to be brought before the justice of Glamorgan in his sessions , it cannot be brought before any other person , or in any other place . So , by the Scotch law : " statutory provisions cannot be ...
... action founded upon a statute be directed to be brought before the justice of Glamorgan in his sessions , it cannot be brought before any other person , or in any other place . So , by the Scotch law : " statutory provisions cannot be ...
Page 78
... action that he judges unlawful , and he is to undergo the punishment , which it is not unlawful for him to bear . The same acquiescence in the laws is enjoined in the admirable dialogue of Plato , entitled Crito . The English lawyers ...
... action that he judges unlawful , and he is to undergo the punishment , which it is not unlawful for him to bear . The same acquiescence in the laws is enjoined in the admirable dialogue of Plato , entitled Crito . The English lawyers ...
Page 81
... action between two individuals , claiming under an act of the legislature , in which action , corruption on the part a 4 Wheat R. 316 . b Calder v . Bull , 3 Dall . 400 . NOTE 9. - The moral tendency and inexpediency of a statute is a ...
... action between two individuals , claiming under an act of the legislature , in which action , corruption on the part a 4 Wheat R. 316 . b Calder v . Bull , 3 Dall . 400 . NOTE 9. - The moral tendency and inexpediency of a statute is a ...
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Page 365 - If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution, if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law disregarding the constitution or conformably to the constitution disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 557 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this state to all mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state.
Page 469 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 364 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 365 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Page 168 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Page 428 - That government can scarcely be deemed to be free where the rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.
Page 44 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere is intrusted by the Constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 397 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Page 494 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service ; and the land and naval forces in time of war...