 | Law - 1906 - 688 pages
...application of such principle by well-established precedents having a bearing upon the question involved. "The law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles which are illustrated and explained by those cases." Lord Mansfield in Rex v. Bembridge, 3 Doug. (Eng.) 327, 332. Though we search for precedents... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1228 pages
...negligence complained of constituted at most a civil wrong. Lord Mansfield, in his opinion, says : "The law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles, •which are Illustrated and explained by these cases. Here there are two principles applicable — First, that a man accepting an office of... | |
 | Criminal law - 1903 - 632 pages
...the negligence complained of constituted at most a civil wrong. Lord MANSFIELD, in his opinion, says: "The law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles which are illustrated and explained by these cases. Here there are two principles applicable, first, that a man accepting an office of trust... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - Bar associations - 1909 - 1020 pages
...not be a "mere directory of cases. 9 Lord Mansfield long ago said that "The law does not consist in particular cases but of general principles which are illustrated and explained by those cases." Rules of pleading should facilitate getting at the real facts in a legal and orderly... | |
 | James Irwin Tucker - Engineering - 1910 - 326 pages
...ASSISTANT PROFESSOR >N SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND ASSIST IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AT TUFTS COLLEGE " The law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles which are illustrated and explained by these cases." — LORD MANSFIELD. FIRST EDITION FIRST THOUSAND McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 239 WEST 39TH... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 286 pages
...is, in my judgment, the true solution of the difficulty; for, as Lord Mansfield has well pointed out, "the law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles, which are illustrated and explained by those cases."30 The present Chief Justice of England, Lord Cockburn, whose views, on any subject connected... | |
 | Philip Chesney Yorke - Great Britain - 1913 - 622 pages
...see below, p. 498, and above, pp. 424, 479; cf. Lord Mansfield in Rex v. Bambri,lge, 3 Douglas, 332, "The law does not consist of particular cases but...principles, which are illustrated and explained by these cases." tradition. The full force of precedent and established rule was always allowed. There... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 984 pages
...Orations and Essays, p. 96.) Lord Mansfield said (Rex vs. Bembridge, 3 Douglas Reps. 327, 332. ) " The law does not consist of particular cases but of...principles which are illustrated and explained by these cases." These fundamental principles of justice and right have always existed, but their application... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - Evidence (Law) - 1918 - 1032 pages
...the statement is both full and correct. As to brevity, 1 may say, in the words of Lord Mansfield: — "The law does not consist of particular cases, but...principles which are illustrated and explained by those cases."* Every one will express somewhat differently the principles which he draws from a number... | |
 | Law - 1918 - 1048 pages
...seeker, of pre-existing truth. Lord Mansfield said : "The law does not conСазе and Comment sist of particular cases, but of general principles which are illustrated and explained by those cases." This means that though we loosely speak of decisions as constituting the common and equity... | |
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The law does not consist of particular cases, but of general principles which are illustrated and explained by these cases. 
