The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 22Saunders and Benning, 1839 - Law |
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... applied within certain limits , is not only neces- sary but beneficial . " In distributing crimes within their proper limits , and so de- fining their component parts as to promote the great ends of all penal laws , two opposite evils ...
... applied within certain limits , is not only neces- sary but beneficial . " In distributing crimes within their proper limits , and so de- fining their component parts as to promote the great ends of all penal laws , two opposite evils ...
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... applied to a state of circumstances where malice does not exist , in the ordinary sense of the term , but is only malice in a legal sense by construction of law . " If A. shooting at B. , with intent to kill him , were to miss B. , and ...
... applied to a state of circumstances where malice does not exist , in the ordinary sense of the term , but is only malice in a legal sense by construction of law . " If A. shooting at B. , with intent to kill him , were to miss B. , and ...
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... applied in favour of the mere trespasser . " 6 " In the reasoning of this passage we concur , but the criti- cism on Mr. Justice Foster is unjust . The critic assumes the civil injury of trespass to have been committed by the ...
... applied in favour of the mere trespasser . " 6 " In the reasoning of this passage we concur , but the criti- cism on Mr. Justice Foster is unjust . The critic assumes the civil injury of trespass to have been committed by the ...
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... applied to crimes often unequal , if the admission of attenuating circumstances allow of discarding the punishment of death in the more favorable cases ? What does it matter that the subsequent offence does not always proceed from ...
... applied to crimes often unequal , if the admission of attenuating circumstances allow of discarding the punishment of death in the more favorable cases ? What does it matter that the subsequent offence does not always proceed from ...
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... applied in different ages . Another object has been , to incorporate into the text some of the leading doc- trines which guide and govern Courts of Equity in the exer- cise of their jurisdiction ; and especially in those cases where the ...
... applied in different ages . Another object has been , to incorporate into the text some of the leading doc- trines which guide and govern Courts of Equity in the exer- cise of their jurisdiction ; and especially in those cases where the ...
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Page 260 - a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, sir, what is the purpose of courts of justice? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a...
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