National University Law Review, Volume 6National University Law School, 1926 - Law |
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... questions : Why is there no science of the law , is such a science possible , by what method should an attempt to erect the law into a science be pursued . Included in ... question is often asked as to whether there is NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
... questions : Why is there no science of the law , is such a science possible , by what method should an attempt to erect the law into a science be pursued . Included in ... question is often asked as to whether there is NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
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... question , not merely is law a science , but as to why so little effort has been made toward its study along scientific and philosophic principles . The answer is not to be found by merely emphasizing the baffling complexity of the ...
... question , not merely is law a science , but as to why so little effort has been made toward its study along scientific and philosophic principles . The answer is not to be found by merely emphasizing the baffling complexity of the ...
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... question . A being well constituted to extract the needful oxygen from a compound in which each atom of oxygen is in combination with two atoms of hydrogen may , as indeed all fishes do , live very comfortably in an aqueous environment ...
... question . A being well constituted to extract the needful oxygen from a compound in which each atom of oxygen is in combination with two atoms of hydrogen may , as indeed all fishes do , live very comfortably in an aqueous environment ...
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... question does not appear to have been inferior to that of the Chief Justice , had previously declared in the same case : 28 No one who has read Story and Sir W. Jones on Bailments , and the judgment of Lord Holt in Coggs v . Bernard can ...
... question does not appear to have been inferior to that of the Chief Justice , had previously declared in the same case : 28 No one who has read Story and Sir W. Jones on Bailments , and the judgment of Lord Holt in Coggs v . Bernard can ...
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... question arises upon the mortgages . The civil law is the spring head of the English juris- prudence upon the subject of these securities . " Gilman v . Illi- nois , etc. , Tel . Co. , 91 U. S. 603 , 23 L. Ed . 405 , 410 . " It will be ...
... question arises upon the mortgages . The civil law is the spring head of the English juris- prudence upon the subject of these securities . " Gilman v . Illi- nois , etc. , Tel . Co. , 91 U. S. 603 , 23 L. Ed . 405 , 410 . " It will be ...
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Page 29 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, State, colony, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty...
Page 30 - ... means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties ; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary and essential to his carrying...
Page 19 - ... The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction.
Page 8 - ... avail itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances.
Page 2 - If not found to be so, we must look to those settled usages and modes of proceeding existing in the common and statute law of England before the emigration of our ancestors, and which are shown not to have been unsuited to their civil and political condition, by having been acted on by them after the settlement of this country.
Page 48 - ... gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations...
Page 48 - July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; the compensation of the present President of the United States during the term for which he has been elected, and the judges of the Supreme and inferior courts of the United States now in office, and the compensation of all officers and employees of a State, or any political subdivision thereof, except when such compensation is paid by the United States Government.
Page 7 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Page 70 - Income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined," provided it be understood to include profit gained through a sale or conversion of capital assets, to which it was applied in the Doyle Case (pp.
Page 88 - The income of foreign governments received from investments in the United States in stocks, bonds, or other domestic securities, owned by such foreign governments, or from interest on deposits in banks in the United States of moneys belonging to such foreign governments, or from any other source within the United States...