 | Peter Baumeister - 2006 - 842 pàgines
...this is another strong argument in law, Nihil quod est contra rationem est licitum; for reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itselfe is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not of every... | |
 | Stephen J. Finn - 2004 - 206 pàgines
...nothing else but reason' (D 4). Hobbes, however, disagrees with Coke's notion that the common law is an 'artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation and experience, and not every man's natural reason' (D 14). This artificial reason, for Coke, specifically belongs to certain... | |
 | Frederic R. Kellogg - 2006 - 177 pàgines
...employed this strategy in his Institutes: "The Common Law is nothing else but reason. . . . But this is an artificial perfection of Reason gotten by long study, observation, and experience, and not every mans natural reason," concluding, "No man (out of his private reason) ought to be wiser than... | |
 | Robert Zaller - 2007 - 844 pàgines
...cogently stated in the First Institute: [RJeason is the life of the Law, nay the Common Law it selfe is nothing else but reason, which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason gotten by long studie, obseruation and experience and not every mans... | |
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And this is another strong argument in law, Nihil quod est contra rationem est licitum; for reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason, which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason, gotten by... 
