The Most Material Parts of Kent's Commentaries Reduced to Questions and Answers: Upon the Plan and in the Place of Kinne's KentBaker, Voorhis & Company, 1868 - 418 sivua |
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... the American commentaries are living truths here , of daily and constant application . A distinguished American jurist , recently deceased , * * Chief Justice Duer . says , speaking of Kent's Commentaries , " They contain.
... the American commentaries are living truths here , of daily and constant application . A distinguished American jurist , recently deceased , * * Chief Justice Duer . says , speaking of Kent's Commentaries , " They contain.
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... justice , good faith and benevolence . 9. How is this application of the law of nature called ? —2 . By Vattel the necessary law of nations , because nations are bound by the law of nature to observe it ; by others , the in- ternal law ...
... justice , good faith and benevolence . 9. How is this application of the law of nature called ? —2 . By Vattel the necessary law of nations , because nations are bound by the law of nature to observe it ; by others , the in- ternal law ...
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... justice , equally suit- able to the government of individuals in a state of natural equal- ity , and to the relation and conduct of nations ; of a collection of usages , customs , and opinions , the growth of civilization and commerce ...
... justice , equally suit- able to the government of individuals in a state of natural equal- ity , and to the relation and conduct of nations ; of a collection of usages , customs , and opinions , the growth of civilization and commerce ...
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... justice . It retained strong traces of ancient rudeness , from the want of the Christian system of morals , and the civilizing re- straints of commerce . 20. Upon the fall of the Roman empire , what was the state of in- ternational law ...
... justice . It retained strong traces of ancient rudeness , from the want of the Christian system of morals , and the civilizing re- straints of commerce . 20. Upon the fall of the Roman empire , what was the state of in- ternational law ...
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... justice , and though municipal law had under- gone great improvement , the law of nations remained in a rude and uncultivated state down to the period of the sixteenth century . 21. Did the Emperor Charlemagne improve the public law of ...
... justice , and though municipal law had under- gone great improvement , the law of nations remained in a rude and uncultivated state down to the period of the sixteenth century . 21. Did the Emperor Charlemagne improve the public law of ...
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Sivu 195 - ... to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage ; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them...
Sivu 353 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Sivu 115 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Sivu 90 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of...
Sivu 345 - ... a contingent remainder in fee may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is limited, die under the age of twenty-one years, or on any other contingency by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain full age.
Sivu 100 - This exclusive delegation, or rather this alienation, of State sovereignty would only exist in three cases: where the Constitution in express terms granted an exclusive authority to the Union; where it granted in one instance an authority to the Union, and in another prohibited the States from exercising the like authority; and where it granted an authority to the Union, to which a similar authority in the States would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant.
Sivu 183 - ... part of the said surplusage to the wife of the intestate, and all the residue by equal portions to and amongst the children of such persons dying intestate, and such persons as legally represent such children in case any of the said children be then dead...
Sivu 9 - In the absence of higher and more authoritative sanctions, the ordinances of foreign States, the opinions of eminent statesmen, and the writings of distinguished jurists, are regarded as of great consideration on questions not settled by conventional law. In cases where the principal jurists agree, the presumption will be very great in favor of the solidity of their maxims ; and no civilized nation, that does not arrogantly set all ordinary law and justice at defiance, will venture to disregard the...
Sivu 69 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity...
Sivu 163 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.