An Introduction to Municipal Law: Designed for General Readers and for Students in Colleges and Higher Schools"Designed for general readers, and for students in colleges and higher schools."--T.p. |
Contents
| 302 | |
| 304 | |
| 308 | |
| 310 | |
| 314 | |
| 316 | |
| 320 | |
| 324 | |
| 23 | |
| 25 | |
| 27 | |
| 29 | |
| 33 | |
| 47 | |
| 49 | |
| 58 | |
| 59 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 | |
| 73 | |
| 80 | |
| 83 | |
| 86 | |
| 97 | |
| 98 | |
| 102 | |
| 108 | |
| 115 | |
| 120 | |
| 125 | |
| 126 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | |
| 139 | |
| 146 | |
| 156 | |
| 166 | |
| 172 | |
| 178 | |
| 180 | |
| 184 | |
| 191 | |
| 197 | |
| 227 | |
| 230 | |
| 237 | |
| 240 | |
| 246 | |
| 249 | |
| 252 | |
| 258 | |
| 264 | |
| 270 | |
| 276 | |
| 282 | |
| 289 | |
| 295 | |
| 301 | |
| 329 | |
| 335 | |
| 342 | |
| 344 | |
| 351 | |
| 358 | |
| 365 | |
| 367 | |
| 371 | |
| 377 | |
| 383 | |
| 387 | |
| 391 | |
| 397 | |
| 398 | |
| 403 | |
| 405 | |
| 409 | |
| 417 | |
| 419 | |
| 425 | |
| 435 | |
| 436 | |
| 437 | |
| 439 | |
| 440 | |
| 444 | |
| 445 | |
| 446 | |
| 451 | |
| 452 | |
| 455 | |
| 456 | |
| 464 | |
| 468 | |
| 475 | |
| 481 | |
| 487 | |
| 492 | |
| 498 | |
| 505 | |
| 515 | |
| 524 | |
| 530 | |
| 531 | |
| 538 | |
| 539 | |
| 551 | |
| 567 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute action acts admiralty adopted ancient Anglo-Saxon arising called chancellor character citizens civil claim commenced common law compurgators Constitution contracts countries Court of Chancery COURTS OF EQUITY crime criminal customs debts decide defendant ealdorman effect element enforced England England and America English and American entirely equity established evidence ex delicto existing fact feudal system freemen German habeas corpus heir ideas important institutions judges judgment judicial decision jurisdiction jurisprudence jury trial justice Justinian king king's lands law courts law of judicial legislation legislature lord magistrates marriage matters maxims ment methods municipal law national jurisprudence nature oath obligation original owner ownership particular parties peculiar person plaintiff portion possession prætors principles procedure proceeding progress provisions questions relations remedies result Roman law rules Saxon species statute thegn things tion tribunals United unwritten law vassal whole wife witnesses writ writing
Popular passages
Page 383 - The power of legislation, and, consequently, of taxation, operates on all the persons and property belonging to the body politic. This is an original principle, which has its foundation in society itself. It is granted by all, for the benefit of all.
Page 384 - The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature acts upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive taxation.
Page 358 - For almost five centuries it was appealed to as the decisive authority on behalf of the people, though commonly so far only as the necessities of each case demanded.
Page 367 - A libel is a malicious publication expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
Page 401 - And if the government of Rhode Island deemed the armed opposition so formidable, and so ramified throughout the State as to require the nse of its military force and the declaration of martial law, we see no ground upon which this court can question its authority.
Page 359 - To have produced it, to have preserved it, to have matured it, constitute the immortal claim of England upon the esteem of mankind. Her Bacons and Shakespeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when compared with the subjection of men and their rulers to the principles of...
Page 410 - If, in foreign invasion or civil war, the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theater of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority, thus overthrown...
Page 401 - It was a state of war, and the established government resorted to the rights and usages of war to maintain itself, and to overcome the unlawful opposition. And in that state of things, the officers engaged in its military service might lawfully arrest any one, who, from the information before them, they had reasonable grounds to believe was engaged in the insurrection...
Page 92 - The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 358 - ... them against blights. On the English nation, undoubtedly, the Charter has contributed to bestow the union of establishment with improvement. To all mankind it set the first example of the progress of a great people for centuries, in blending their tumultuary democracy and haughty nobility with a fluctuating and...