The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Law tracts. Maxims of the lawC.and J. Rivington, 1826 |
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Page 15 - IT were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another; therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree. As if an annuity be granted "pro consilio impenso
Page 289 - that every person, which shall after the time aforesaid be used or employed as a broker, mean or procurer, for the taking up of such commodities, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of one hundred pounds, the same to be, etc. and shall be farther punished by six months imprisonment, without bail or
Page 535 - The next, That after this example, it is like that judges will fly from any thing that is in the likeness of corruption, though it were at a great distance, as from a serpent ; which tendeth to the purging of the courts of justice, and the reducing them to their true honour and splendor.
Page 535 - And in these two points, God is my witness, that though it be my fortune to be the anvil, whereupon those good effects are beaten and wrought, I take no small comfort. " But to pass from the motions of my heart, whereof God is only judge, to the merits of my cause, whereof your lordships
Page 536 - It resteth therefore, that, without fig-leaves, I do ingenuously confess and acknowledge, that having understood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the house, but enough to inform my conscience and my memory, I find matters sufficient and full, both to move me to desert my defence, and to move your lordships to condemn and censure me.
Page 404 - lives than to bestow them idly : nay, it is weakness and dis-esteem of a man's self, to put a man's life upon such liedger performances : a man's life is not to be trifled away ; it is to be offered up and sacrificed to honourable services, public merits, good causes, and noble adventures. It is in
Page 536 - te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una ?" Neither will I prompt your lordships to observe upon the proofs, where they come not home, or the scruple touching the credit of the witnesses. Neither will I represent to your lordships, how far a defence in divers things mought extenuate the offence in
Page 537 - hath the same terror, though not the same rigour with the punishment. " But my case standeth not there ; for my humble desire is, that his Majesty would take the seal into his hands ; which is a great downfal, and may serve, I hope, in itself, for an expiation of my faults.
Page 98 - men that had entailed lands, that they could not make the best of their lands by fine and improvement, for that none, upon so uncertain an estate as for term of his own life, would give him a fine of any value, nor lay any great stock upon the land, that might yield rent improved. The
Page 512 - faction, cancelling of bonds, or evidences, and the like; those parts of the decree are to be spared until the bill of review be determined ; but such sparing is to be warranted by public order made in court. 5. No bill of review shall be put in, except the party that prefers it enter into