 | Law - 1920 - 1086 pages
..."with equal pertinacity" to the old Common law, is not borne out by the facts. Blackstone is wrong. " It is by ' popish clergymen ' that our English common...from a rude mass of customs into an articulate system of law, and when the ' popish clergymen,' yielding at length to the Pope's commands, no longer sit... | |
 | William Wirt Howe - Civil law - 1896 - 374 pages
...ecclesiastical causes and learn the lessons in law that were addressed to them in papal rescripts. Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, the...their foreign jurisprudence, the nobility and the 1 Vol. I. p. 89. laity on the other side adhering with equal pertinacity to the old common law, is... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland - Law - 1898 - 740 pages
...ecclesiastical causes and learn the lessons in law that were addressed to them in papal rescripts. Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, ' the...with equal pertinacity to the old common law ' is not true1. It is by ' popish clergymen ' that our English common law is converted from a rude mass of customs... | |
 | Humphrey Joseph Desmond - History - 1901 - 344 pages
...collaborating on a " History of English Law before the Time of Edward I.," conjointly declare: "Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties — '...one. It is by ' Popish clergymen ' that our English law is converted from a rude mass of customs into an articulate system ; and when the ' Popish clergymen,'... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Jurisprudence - 1905 - 496 pages
...It is said that: " Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties ' the bishops and the clergy ' on the one side contending for their foreign...'with equal pertinacity to the old common law' is not true. It is by 'popish clergymen' that our English Common Law is converted from a rude mass of customs... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Jesuits - 1908 - 692 pages
...Appendix, pp. 169-245. § 19. RECTIFICATIONS OF HISTORY 127 and Maitland inform us that " Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, ' the bishops and clergy ' on one side contending for their foreign jurisprudence, ' the nobility and Pollock and the laity ' on... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1908 - 692 pages
...x., 1844: "Mortmain," qu. 1225, pp. 150 (668), 151 (669)., and Maitland inform us that " Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, ' the bishops and clergy ' on one side contending for their foreign jurisprudence, ' the nobility and Pollock and the laity ' on... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...clergy in mediaeval law. — Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, "the bishops ami clergy" on the one side contending for their foreign..."with equal pertinacity to the old common law," is not true. It is by ''popish clergymen" that our English common law is converted from a rude mass of customs... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1922 - 1044 pages
...hucutqw voilatse tunt et (e) Idem, (bid. 6. 16. Polydor. Virgil. Hi*. I. 9. approbate. (13) Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, "'the...for their foreign jurisprudence, ' the nobility and laity ' on the other side adhering ' with equal pertinacity to the old common law ' is not a true one.... | |
 | Bar associations - 1927 - 824 pages
...Anglo-Saxon proprietors how to make written wills." In Pollock and Maitland we find:— Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, the...nobility and the laity on the other side adhering to the old common law, is not a true one. It is by 'popish clergymen that our English Common Law is... | |
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Blackstone's picture of a nation divided into two parties, ' the bishops and clergy ' on the one side contending for their foreign jurisprudence, 'the nobility and the laity ' on the other side adhering ' with equal pertinacity to the old common law '... 
