A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York: Delivered by Request Before the Bar of the City of Albany, January 5, 1849

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W.C. Little & Company, 1849 - 104 Seiten
 

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Seite 63 - It may be laid down as a general principle that, whenever an act ia dona in fraudem legis, it cannot be the basis of a suit in the courts of the country whose laws are attempted to be infringed.
Seite 28 - In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Seite 3 - TABER, as chairman of said committee, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the...
Seite 29 - Hale, the common law of England is, ' not the product of the wisdom of some one man, or society of men, in any one age ; but of wisdom, counsel, experience, and observation of many ages of wise and observing men.
Seite 29 - ... illustrious a patriot as Mr. Jay, had laid down correctly and broadly the power of the Jury. These acts were monuments, were consoling vestiges of the wisdom and virtue of the Administration, and of the character that produced them. " He maintained that the Common Law applied to the United States. The Common Law was principally the application of natural law to the state and condition of society...
Seite 75 - ... desire to see the law altered. Generally speaking, the rules of the common law, which give to the husband all the wife's personal property, and the rents and profits of her real estate during coverture, are better calculated, in my judgment, to secure domestic tranquillity and happiness, than settlements securing to the wife a property separate from and independent of the control of the husband.
Seite 4 - On motion, resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretary, and delivered to Dr. DODS, and that they be published in the newspapers of the city. " JOHN P. HULBERT, Chairman.
Seite 72 - ... Waddington, during the late war between this country and Great Britain. It was admitted on the argument, and so the fact undoubtedly is, that the proposition I have advanced is neither supported nor denied by any judicial decisions or elementary writer of the common law ; but if I mistake not, it is supported by the strongest reasons, and by necessary analogy with adjudged cases. The first inquiry is, What are the objects and ends of partnerships?
Seite 23 - I believe, towards the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, sent out more living writers, in its proportion, than any other school.
Seite 4 - That as a slight testimonial of our respect for our deceased brother, we attend bis funeral in a body, and wear the usual badge of mourning, and that these resolutions...

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