Select Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries ... With a glossary, questions, notes and introduction, by Rev. Samuel WarrenA. Maxwell, 1837 - 428 Seiten |
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... killing his son , though he had committed a very heinous crime , upon this maxim , that " patria potestas in pietate debet , non in atrocitate , consistere . " But still they maintained to the last a very large and absolute au- thority ...
... killing his son , though he had committed a very heinous crime , upon this maxim , that " patria potestas in pietate debet , non in atrocitate , consistere . " But still they maintained to the last a very large and absolute au- thority ...
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... killing her mistress ; another of a boy still younger , that had killed his companion and hid himself , who was hanged ; for it appeared by his hiding that he knew he had done wrong , and could discern between good and evil : and in ...
... killing her mistress ; another of a boy still younger , that had killed his companion and hid himself , who was hanged ; for it appeared by his hiding that he knew he had done wrong , and could discern between good and evil : and in ...
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... kill , or maim his villein ; though he might beat him with im- punity , since the villein had no action or remedy at law against his lord , but in case of the murder of his ancestor , or the maim of his own person . Neifes indeed THE ...
... kill , or maim his villein ; though he might beat him with im- punity , since the villein had no action or remedy at law against his lord , but in case of the murder of his ancestor , or the maim of his own person . Neifes indeed THE ...
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... killing her mistress : and one boy of ten , and another of nine years old , who had killed their companions , have been sentenced to death , and he of ten years actually hanged : because it appeared upon their trials , that the one hid ...
... killing her mistress : and one boy of ten , and another of nine years old , who had killed their companions , have been sentenced to death , and he of ten years actually hanged : because it appeared upon their trials , that the one hid ...
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... kill a thief or housebreaker in his own house , by mistake kills one of his own family , this is no criminal action : but if a man thinks he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or outlawed wher- ever he meets him , and does so ...
... kill a thief or housebreaker in his own house , by mistake kills one of his own family , this is no criminal action : but if a man thinks he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or outlawed wher- ever he meets him , and does so ...
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Seite 83 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 127 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Seite 129 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said princess ; and for default of such issue to the princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said prince of Orange.
Seite 240 - They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Seite 52 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law, as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance, and of protection from personal injuries.
Seite 67 - Personal liberty," it has been well said, "consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.
Seite 328 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Seite 84 - God, the original of all just power: . . . that the commons of England, in parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing, the people, have the supreme power in this nation : . . . that whatsoever is enacted, or declared for law, by the commons, in parliament assembled, hath the force of law; and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of king, or house of peers be not had thereunto'.
Seite 233 - The eleemosynary sort are such as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms, or bounty, of the founder of them to such persons as he has directed. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent: and all colleges, both in our universities and out e of them : which colleges are founded for two purposes ; 1.
Seite 61 - The absolute rights of man, considered as a free agent, endowed with discernment to know good from evil, and, with power of choosing those measures which appear to him to be most desirable, are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated the natural liberty of mankind.