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... provision of the then existing Constitution of New York , he became Professor of Law at Columbia College , and soon worked up his lectures into these four historic volumes . Kent was not merely a great lawyer . He was a scholar and a ...
... provision of the then existing Constitution of New York , he became Professor of Law at Columbia College , and soon worked up his lectures into these four historic volumes . Kent was not merely a great lawyer . He was a scholar and a ...
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... of legislatures , it must be imposed by the eighth amendment of the Constitution of the United States or similar provisions in the state constitutions . That this provision applies to punishments of a barbarous char- COMMENT . 55.
... of legislatures , it must be imposed by the eighth amendment of the Constitution of the United States or similar provisions in the state constitutions . That this provision applies to punishments of a barbarous char- COMMENT . 55.
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... provision is equally well established . ( In re Kemmler , 136 U. S. 436 ) . But when it is sought to invoke the aid of this constitutional provision , to prevent the infliction of punishment , excessive and dis- proportionate to the ...
... provision is equally well established . ( In re Kemmler , 136 U. S. 436 ) . But when it is sought to invoke the aid of this constitutional provision , to prevent the infliction of punishment , excessive and dis- proportionate to the ...
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... provision did not go any farther than to allow truth as a mitigation was error . The case of State v . Lehre , 2 Brev . 446 , 4 Am . Dec. 596 , decided that a person indicted for libel could not give any evidence tending to prove the ...
... provision did not go any farther than to allow truth as a mitigation was error . The case of State v . Lehre , 2 Brev . 446 , 4 Am . Dec. 596 , decided that a person indicted for libel could not give any evidence tending to prove the ...
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... provision of the Code- " any action for relief on the ground of fraud is not to be deemed to have occurred until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud " -is to be construed lit- erally , and that there ...
... provision of the Code- " any action for relief on the ground of fraud is not to be deemed to have occurred until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud " -is to be construed lit- erally , and that there ...
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Page 253 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 95 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 198 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 249 - Court declared:—"It is clear there can be no common law of the United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent States, each of which may have its local usages, customs, and common law. There is no principle which pervades the Union and has the authority of law that is not embodied in the Constitution or laws of the Union. The common law could be made a part of our federal system only by legislative adoption.
Page 74 - That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution.
Page 161 - A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party, for a consideration (which is usually paid in money, either in one sum, or at different times during the continuance of the risk), promises to make a certain payment of money upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest...
Page 210 - In our judgment, the exaction from the owner of private property of the cost of a public improvement in substantial excess of the special benefits accruing to him is, to the extent of such excess, a taking, under the guise of taxation, of private property for public use without compensation.
Page 214 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Page 308 - Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbors, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? 1 Cit. Never, never. — Come, away, away! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
Page 198 - We are all born in subjection, all born equally, high and low, governors and governed, in subjection to one great, immutable, pre-existent law. prior to all our devices, and prior to all our contrivances, paramount to all our ideas and all our sensations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe, out of which we cannot stir.