 | Samuel Williams - 1809 - 498 Seiten
...determine what is wanted in this part of our constitution. , LAWS. So much of the common law of England as is not repugnant to the constitution^ or to any act of the legislature, is adopted as law within this state : And such statute laws^ and parts of laws of the kingdom of England... | |
 | Vermont - 1823 - 570 Seiten
...their real estates by English tenures. Be it enacted, &c. that so much of the common law of England, as is not repugnant to the constitution or to any act of the legislature of this State, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, and continue to be, law within this State. And whereas, the... | |
 | 1843 - 516 Seiten
...for producing uniformity of decisions in the same." And in the body of the act it is declared, " that so much of the common law of England as is applicable...constitution, or to any act of the legislature, of this state, be, and hereby is, adopted law, and all courts are to take notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly."... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1830 - 618 Seiten
...The common law is adopted by our statute, so far, and so far only, as the same is applicable to our local situation and circumstances, and is not repugnant...constitution, or to any act of the legislature, of this state. Whether applicable, or not, must necessarily be a question of judicial decision : and this is, probably,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1837 - 534 Seiten
...propriety be exercised here. state By the act passed in 1797, Comp. stat. 57, it is enacted, "that Kuyc->. so much of the common law of England as is applicable...the constitution or to any act of the legislature, &.c., be and hereby is adopted law in this state." Now if this common law power is repugnant to the... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - 1846 - 422 Seiten
...English tenures." By the first section it is enacted, " That so much of the common law of England as is not repugnant to the constitution, or to any act of the legislature of this state, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, and continue to be, law within this state." By the common... | |
 | Vermont - 1851 - 838 Seiten
...Citizens of the United States, entitled to priv-1 3. Imprisonment, contrary to law, prohibited. SECTION 1. So much of the common law of England, as is applicable...circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws of this state, shall be deemed and considered law in this state, and all courts are to take notice... | |
 | Benjamin Homer Hall - 1858 - 832 Seiten
...statute laws of England, so far as they were applicable to a republican form of government, and were " not repugnant to the constitution, or to any act of the Legislature " of Vermont, were adopted as the laws of the state. Corporal punishment, though at first much employed... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - 1871 - 154 Seiten
...e. 1-1 adopting the " the common law of England, as is not repugnant to commou law of L Euglaud. " the Constitution, or to any act of the Legislature of " this State, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, " and continue to be, law within this State." By the common... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 Seiten
...common law of this state. By this assumption, the fact is Ignored that this state has only adopted so much of the common law of England as is applicable...circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws of Vermont, and that such adoption was subsequent to the adoption of the constitution of 1777.... | |
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so much of the common law of England as is applicable to the local situation and circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws, shall be law in this State. 
