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Page 433 - ... and the like. But I take these to be one and the same thing. For the authority of these maxims rests entirely upon general reception and usage: and the only method of proving, that this or that maxim is a rule of the common law, is by showing that it hath been always the custom to observe it.
Page 356 - ... said realm of England, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any of the...
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Page 614 - I do believe in my conscience, that the Person Pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease, pretending to be and taking upon himself the...
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Page 438 - It is now full two hundred and forty years since treasons were defined ; and so long has it been since any man was touched to this extent upon this crime, before myself. We have lived, my lords, happily to ourselves, at home : we have lived gloriously abroad to the world : let us be content with what our fathers have left us : let not our ambition carry us to be more learned than they were, in these killing and destructive arts.
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| Title | Arguments and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases: Before the High Court of Justiciary, and Other Supreme Courts, in Scotland Making of Modern Law : Trials, 1600-1926 |
| Authors | Lord John Maclaurin Dreghorn, Scotland. High Court of Justiciary |
| Editor | Lord John Maclaurin Dreghorn |
| Compiled by | Lord John Maclaurin Dreghorn |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1774 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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