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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Sir Matthew Hale

    historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Hale · the great, the good, the wise Sir Matthew Hale · the respectable Judge Hale

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    An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

    English jurist cited for his statement that the law of the land means the common law.

    Thus, Sir Matthew Hale says:
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    “The common law is sometimes called, by way of eminence, lex terræ, as in the statute of Magna Carta, chap.
    chapter 5
    Hale says:
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    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    A seventeenth-century English judge, cited by the narrator as an example of a highly esteemed jurist who nonetheless issued a mistaken and fatal judgment.

    but one rendered by the great, the good, the wise Sir Matthew Hale, so late too as the seventeenth century, is quite in point.
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    The Law of Torts19th Century · English

    Seventeenth-century English jurist, author of the Analysis of the law of England.

    Even Hale, when in his Analysis he mapped out the field of English law, did not make it an important outline.
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    following the plan which he inherited from Hale, he treats debt, covenant, and assumpsit as remedies for injuries affecting property, injuries affecting choses in action.
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