 | Appellate courts - 1917 - 742 pages
...therefore, to hold, that the word 'laws,' in this section, includes within the scope of its meaning the decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary...what the laws are, and are not, of themselves, laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Joseph Ragland Long - Courts - 1917 - 440 pages
...therefore, to hold that the word 'laws' in this section includes within the scope of its meaning the decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary...what the laws are, and are not of .themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves whenever they are found... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 868 pages
...in the case of Swift v. Tyson, 16 Pet. 1 (1842), as appears in the following quotation at page 18: "In the ordinary use of language it will hardly be...what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, revised and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1062 pages
...(1842), as appears in the following quotation : "In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly he contended that the decisions of courts constitute...what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Henry Schofield - Constitutional law - 1921 - 524 pages
...usage" of the act of Congress. In Swift v. Tyson (1842), 16 Pet. 1, 18, Story, J., said for the court: "In the ordinary use of language it will hardly be contended that the decision of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are; and are... | |
 | John Carter Rose - Civil procedure - 1922 - 812 pages
...decisions of the State Courts as to what their unwritten law is. Many years ago the Supreme Court said: — "They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and are not, of themselves, laws. They are often re-examined, reversed and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1096 pages
...therefore, to hold, that the word 'laws,' in this section, includes within the scope of its moaning the decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary...what the laws are, and are not, of themselves, laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 568 pages
...therefore, to hold, that the word 'laws' in this section, includes within the scope of its meaning the decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary...what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1158 pages
...therefore, to hold that 1 the word 'laws,' in this section, includes within the scope of its meaning the decisions of the local tribunals. In the ordinary...what the laws are, and are not, of themselves, laws. They are often re-examined, reversed, and qualified by the courts themselves, whenever they are found... | |
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In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws. 
