Spurious InterpretationColumbia Law Review, 1907 - 386 pages |
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Page 379
... legislative agency , this relation is a favorite theme of jurists . In periods of enacted law or among peoples with whom the growing - point of law is in legislation , it is apt to be passed over lightly , if not sneered at . ' The ...
... legislative agency , this relation is a favorite theme of jurists . In periods of enacted law or among peoples with whom the growing - point of law is in legislation , it is apt to be passed over lightly , if not sneered at . ' The ...
Page 380
... Legislators and analytical jurists ' have sometimes assumed that a perfection of statement was pos- sible which would do away with all need for interpretation . But the last and best piece of code - making has left the whole matter of ...
... Legislators and analytical jurists ' have sometimes assumed that a perfection of statement was pos- sible which would do away with all need for interpretation . But the last and best piece of code - making has left the whole matter of ...
Page 382
... legislative , not a judicial process , made necessary in formative periods by the paucity of principles , feebleness of legislation , and rigidity of rules characteristic of archaic law . So long as law is regarded as sacred , or for ...
... legislative , not a judicial process , made necessary in formative periods by the paucity of principles , feebleness of legislation , and rigidity of rules characteristic of archaic law . So long as law is regarded as sacred , or for ...
Page 384
... legislative powers by the courts . No one will assert at present that the separation of powers is part of the legal order of nature or that it is essential to liberty . We recognize to - day that it is a practical device , existing for ...
... legislative powers by the courts . No one will assert at present that the separation of powers is part of the legal order of nature or that it is essential to liberty . We recognize to - day that it is a practical device , existing for ...
Page 385
... legislative power , the danger is greatly aggravated . Popular feeling that courts make law , and hence that judges are political officers to be elected as such , is making more than one commonwealth realize Bacon's saying , " An ...
... legislative power , the danger is greatly aggravated . Popular feeling that courts make law , and hence that judges are political officers to be elected as such , is making more than one commonwealth realize Bacon's saying , " An ...
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Page 433 - An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor, or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the purpose of lending his name to' some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder for value, notwithstanding such holder at the time of taking the instrument knew him to be only an accommodation party.
Page 390 - Upon any indictment for embezzlement, it is a sufficient defense that the property was appropriated openly and avowedly, and under a claim of title preferred in good faith, even though such claim is untenable.
Page 413 - ... access to the navigable part of the river from the front of his lot; the right to make a landing, wharf, or pier for his own use, or for the use of the public, subject to such general rules and regulations as the legislature may see proper to impose for the protection of the rights of the public, whatever those may be.
Page 388 - April, 1906. possession, appropriates the same to his own use, or that of any other person other than the true owner or person entitled to the benefit thereof; Steals such property, and is guilty of larceny.
Page 403 - ... undisposed of, and no valid direction for their accumulation is given, such rents and profits shall belong to the persons presumptively entitled to the next eventual estate.
Page 394 - The fact that the defendant intended to restore the property stolen or embezzled, is no ground of defense, or of mitigation of punishment, if it has not been restored before complaint to a magistrate, charging the commission of the crime.
Page 388 - A person who, with the intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property...
Page 393 - It is agreed upon all sides that the crime of larceny may not be committed unintentionally, unconsciously, or by mistake, but that, in order to accomplish it, the perpetrator must have the intent referred to. It may be difficult at all times exactly and satisfactorily to define this intent, but the requirement for it as applicable to this case means that, when the relator took part in the appropriation of the moneys in question, he must have had in some degree that same conscious, unlawful, and wicked...