The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly declared in the language of Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr. R. 883, 887, to be in a great measure, not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial world. Non... Advertising, and Other Addresses - Page 25by Francis Bacon James - 1907 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1847 - 554 pages
...positive rules, or conclusive authority, by which our own judgments are to be bound up and governed. The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...language of Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke vs. Lyde, 2 Burr. R. 883, 887, to be in a great Swift v». Tyson. measure, not the law of a single... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 556 pages
...or conclusive authority by which its own judgments are to be bound up and governed. That the law of negotiable instruments may be truly declared, in the...language of Cicero adopted by Lord Mansfield, in Luke and otJters vs. Lyde, 2 Burr. R. 883, 887, to be in a great measure not the law of a single country... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 pages
...positive rules, or conclusive authority, by which our own judgments are to be bound up and governed. The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr. R. 882, 887, to be in a great measure, not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1866 - 658 pages
...principles of commercial law to govern the case." Again, in the same case it is said by this court: "The law respecting negotiable instruments may be...language of Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke i>. Lyde, 2 Burr, 883, 887, to be in a great measure not the law of a single country only, but of the... | |
| John Innes Clark Hare - 1871 - 952 pages
...positive rules, or conclusive authority, by which our own judgments are to be bound up and governed. The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield, in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burrow, 883, 887, to be in a great measure, not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 pages
...instrument, or what is the just rule furnished by the principles of commercial law to govern the case. * * The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...in a great measure not the law of a single country, but of the commercial world : Non erit alia IKE Romae, alia Athenis, alia mine, alia posthac, sed et... | |
| 1875 - 788 pages
...or what is the just rule furnished by the principles of commercial law to govern the case. . . '. . The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr. 882, 887, to be in a great measure not the law of a single country, but of the commercial world. •... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1878 - 366 pages
...his judgment in Swift v. Tyson (16 Peters, 1), gives forcible expression to the principle. He says, " The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde (2 Burr. 887), to be in a great measure, not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial world.... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1880 - 908 pages
...great American commercial lawyer, in a well known judgment t forcibly expresses this truth. He says, " The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly declared, in the language of Cicero, to be in a groat measure not the law of a single country only, but of the commercial world — ' non... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - 1880 - 748 pages
...positive rules, or conclusive authority, by which our own judgments are to be bound up and governed. The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly...adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr. 882, 887, to be, in a great measure, not the hvw of a single country only, but of the commercial world.... | |
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