 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion, as also because, the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from according to his private sentiments; he being... | |
 | George Bowyer - Ecclesiastical law - 1851 - 218 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 560 pages
...solemnly declared and determined, what before was unTison vs. Mattair.— Opinion of Court. certain and perhaps indifferent is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments, he being... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - Catholic converts - 1860 - 812 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion, as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not iu the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments ;... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...productive of intolerable inconvenience),] but when in any case the law has been solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments: he being... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Constitutional law - 1863 - 860 pages
...liable to waver with every new judge's opinion, as also because the law in that case being declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments ; he being... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - Tax-sales - 1864 - 724 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion, as also, because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments ; he being... | |
 | Francis Fulford - Sermons - 1865 - 340 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments: he being... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...well to keep the scale of justice even and steady; as also because the law in that case being solemnly determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments; he being... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a pennanent rule •which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from according... | |
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For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation: as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that... 
