Transactions, Volume 17Hanzsche, 1912 |
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... resolved , unwisely , it is now generally conceded , by those who controlled the affairs of the State , to urge a decision in Prigs case in the Supreme Court declaring this legislation to be opposed to the Constitution of the United ...
... resolved , unwisely , it is now generally conceded , by those who controlled the affairs of the State , to urge a decision in Prigs case in the Supreme Court declaring this legislation to be opposed to the Constitution of the United ...
Page 50
... resolution adopted at the last annual meeting requiring a memorandum to be prepared within thirty days after the adjournment of the Legislature , speaks for itself . We did the best we could but the Governor adopted the plan of ...
... resolution adopted at the last annual meeting requiring a memorandum to be prepared within thirty days after the adjournment of the Legislature , speaks for itself . We did the best we could but the Governor adopted the plan of ...
Page 98
... resolution : Resolved , That it is essential to the walfare of the com- munity , the perpetuation of our free institutions and the protection of the personal liberty and property rights of the 98 [ 1912 Maryland State Bar Association .
... resolution : Resolved , That it is essential to the walfare of the com- munity , the perpetuation of our free institutions and the protection of the personal liberty and property rights of the 98 [ 1912 Maryland State Bar Association .
Page 99
... resolution be postponed until after the Democratic Convention in Baltimore . Alexander H. Robertson : I rise to a point of order . This resolution cannot be considered under the head under which we are now doing business , but it will ...
... resolution be postponed until after the Democratic Convention in Baltimore . Alexander H. Robertson : I rise to a point of order . This resolution cannot be considered under the head under which we are now doing business , but it will ...
Page 118
... resolved to provide a suitable elementary text book . He enlisted the services of Tribonian , Theophilus , a professor of law at Constantinople , and Dorotheus , a professor of law at Berytus , and they prepared the 118 [ 1912 Maryland ...
... resolved to provide a suitable elementary text book . He enlisted the services of Tribonian , Theophilus , a professor of law at Constantinople , and Dorotheus , a professor of law at Berytus , and they prepared the 118 [ 1912 Maryland ...
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Page 189 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Page 193 - ... were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.
Page 127 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 137 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 195 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 188 - When our constitutions were adopted it was the law of the land that no man who was without fault or negligence could be held liable in damages for injuries sustained by another.
Page 130 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 127 - Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 137 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Page 216 - Other candidates for the office may be nominated to be voted for at said special election, the candidate who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected for the remainder of the term, whether it be the person against whom the recall petition was filed or another.