Centennial Celebration of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1819-1919, by the North Carolina Bar AssociationMitchell Print. Company, 1919 - 85 pàgines |
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Centennial Celebration of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1819-1919, by ... North Carolina Bar Association Visualització completa - 1919 |
Centennial Celebration of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1819-1919, by ... North Carolina Bar Association Visualització completa - 1919 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 48 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : it is always unknown ; it is different in different men ; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst it is every vice, folly, and passion, to which human nature is liable.'*- — Lord Camden.
Pàgina 11 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisouous weeds and wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution and renovate their father's life.
Pàgina 48 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Pàgina 63 - At the time of his death, and for some years prior thereto, he had operated the Ballingall Hotel at Ottumwa, and was the owner of the hotel equipment therein.
Pàgina 11 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion ; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Pàgina 48 - Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, know what to trust to. Equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be!
Pàgina 49 - But this one thing I assure thee, on my faith, that if the parties will at my hands call for justice and equity, then, although it were my father, whom I reverence dearly, that stood on the one side, and the devil, whom I hate extremely, were on the other side, his cause being just, the devil of me should have his right...
Pàgina 48 - ye shall make report to the king's highness, that I am his obedient subject, and faithful chaplain and headman, whose royal commandment and request I will in no wise disobey, but most gladly fulfil and accomplish his princely will and pleasure in all things, and in especial in this matter, inasmuch as ye, the fathers of the laws, say that I may lawfully do it. Therefore I charge your conscience and discharge mine. Howbeit, I pray you, show his majesty from me, that I most humbly desire his highness...
Pàgina 30 - ... in the hands of an innocent holder for value, and without notice...
Pàgina 11 - They determined that not one drop of the blood which had been shed on the other side of the Atlantic, during seven centuries of contest with arbitrary power, should sink into the ground ; but the fruits of every popular victory should be garnered up in this new Government. Of all the great rights already won they threw not an atom away. They went over...