The Spirit of Laws, Volumes 1-2J. Collingwood, 1823 - Jurisprudence |
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... capitulary .... 182 9. In what manner the codes of Barbarian laws , and the ca- pitularies came to be lost 183 10 ... Capitularies , 33. The same Subject continued 185 221 12. Of local Customs . Revolution 34. In what manner the Proceed ...
... capitulary .... 182 9. In what manner the codes of Barbarian laws , and the ca- pitularies came to be lost 183 10 ... Capitularies , 33. The same Subject continued 185 221 12. Of local Customs . Revolution 34. In what manner the Proceed ...
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... capitulary , † ascribed since to Charlemain ? He made of this particular institution a general one , as if he ... Capitularies , lib . 6 , cap . 269. of the year 1613 , edition of Baluzius , page 1021 . CHAP . IX . In what manner the ...
... capitulary , † ascribed since to Charlemain ? He made of this particular institution a general one , as if he ... Capitularies , lib . 6 , cap . 269. of the year 1613 , edition of Baluzius , page 1021 . CHAP . IX . In what manner the ...
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... capitularies to the personal laws , occasioned , I imagine , Let not the bishops , says Charles the Bald , in the Capitulary of 844 , art . 8 , under pretence of the authority of making canons , oppose this constitution , or neglect the ...
... capitularies to the personal laws , occasioned , I imagine , Let not the bishops , says Charles the Bald , in the Capitulary of 844 , art . 8 , under pretence of the authority of making canons , oppose this constitution , or neglect the ...
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... Capitulary of Lewis the Debonnaire , added to the law of the Ripuarians in the year 803 , art . 22 . § See that law . The law of the Frisians , Lombards , Bavarians , Saxons , Thuringians , and Burgundians . ¶ In the law of the ...
... Capitulary of Lewis the Debonnaire , added to the law of the Ripuarians in the year 803 , art . 22 . § See that law . The law of the Frisians , Lombards , Bavarians , Saxons , Thuringians , and Burgundians . ¶ In the law of the ...
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... capitulary of Lewis the Debonnaire allows the liberty of choosing to fight either with the sword or baston . In process of time none but bondmen fought with the baston.§ Here I see the first rise and formation of the ` particular ar ...
... capitulary of Lewis the Debonnaire allows the liberty of choosing to fight either with the sword or baston . In process of time none but bondmen fought with the baston.§ Here I see the first rise and formation of the ` particular ar ...
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Page 154 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 199 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 319 - The enjoyment of liberty, and even its support and preservation, consists in every man's being allowed to speak his thoughts, and lay open his sentiments.
Page 129 - Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states, the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side, and not on the other; the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. "As this government is composed of...
Page 160 - But as we have already observed, the national judges are no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere passive beings, incapable of moderating either its force or rigour.
Page 154 - There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, that of executing the public resolutions, and of trying the causes of individuals.
Page 159 - But if the legislative power in a free state has no right to stay the executive, it has a right and ought to have the means of examining in what manner its laws have been executed...
Page 129 - If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states. Were he to have too great influence over one, this would alarm the rest.
Page 122 - It is natural to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise it cannot long subsist.
Page 128 - It is very probable" (says he*) "that mankind would have been obliged at length to live constantly under the government of a SINGLE PERSON, had they not contrived a kind of constitution that has all the internal advantages of a republican, together with the external force of a monarchical, government.