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... but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication , 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 ...
... but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication , 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 ...
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Page 84 - 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 6 - 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 432 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Page 31 - Next to personal security, the law of England regards, asserts, and preserves the personal liberty of individuals. This personal liberty, consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.
Page 9 - From this method of interpreting laws by the reason of them, arises what we call equity, which is thus defined by Grotius :(r) " the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient.
Page 370 - A writ of quo warranta is in the nature of a writ of right for the king, against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty, to inquire by what authority he supports his claim, in order to determine the right...
Page 32 - To make imprisonment lawful, it must either be by process from the courts of judicature, or by warrant from some legal officer having authority to commit to prison ; which warrant must be in writing, under the hand and seal of the magistrate, and express the causes of the commitment, in order to be examined into, if necessary, upon a habeas corpus.
Page 448 - Or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King's Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm or elsewhere...
Page 84 - ... 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: under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-French a feme-covert; is said to be covert-baron, or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture.
Page 107 - They are not : 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.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Blackstone's Commentaries |
| Author | William Blackstone |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Callaghan, 1899 |
| ISBN | 0875114938, 9780875114934 |
| Length | 536 pages |
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