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... interest caused him to spend much time at Oxford , and he was elected bursar of his college , in which position he rendered great service . In May , 1749 , as a small reward for these services , he was appointed steward of their manors ...
... interest caused him to spend much time at Oxford , and he was elected bursar of his college , in which position he rendered great service . In May , 1749 , as a small reward for these services , he was appointed steward of their manors ...
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... interest of the nation . These are the constituent parts of a parliament ; the king , the lords spiritual and temporal , and the commons . Parts , of which each is so necessary , that the consent of all three is required to make any new ...
... interest of the nation . These are the constituent parts of a parliament ; the king , the lords spiritual and temporal , and the commons . Parts , of which each is so necessary , that the consent of all three is required to make any new ...
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... interest that the party should die . But , it hath been said , there lies not the same objection against his next of kin , provided he be not his heir ; for it is his interest to preserve the lunatic's life , in order to increase the ...
... interest that the party should die . But , it hath been said , there lies not the same objection against his next of kin , provided he be not his heir ; for it is his interest to preserve the lunatic's life , in order to increase the ...
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... interest , unless the claim be made within five years after the same shall accrue . The children of aliens , born here in England , are , generally speaking , natural - born subjects , and entitled to all the privileges of such ...
... interest , unless the claim be made within five years after the same shall accrue . The children of aliens , born here in England , are , generally speaking , natural - born subjects , and entitled to all the privileges of such ...
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... interest in his servant , not to be deprived of his service ; the servant because it is part of his duty , for which he receives his wages , to stand by and defend his master . Also if any person do hire or retain my servant , being in ...
... interest in his servant , not to be deprived of his service ; the servant because it is part of his duty , for which he receives his wages , to stand by and defend his master . Also if any person do hire or retain my servant , being in ...
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Page 78 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 438 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications — and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 438 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Page 37 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 100 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 10 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Page 4 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 80 - Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in the case of any gross misbehaviour.
Page 35 - In the legislature the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not indeed of the king, which would destroy his constitutional...
Page 451 - when a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied.