The Court

they are concerned, directly at least, even for this period, only with that kind of public opinion which, since it has told on the course of legislation, may with strict propriety be called law-making or legislative public opinion, and is recorded either in the statute-book, which contains the laws enacted by Parliament, or in the volumes of the reports, which contain the laws indirectly but not l …

—Before 1800 the Courts had established the principle, that an employer was liable to a third party for damage inflicted upon him through the negligence of the employer’s servants or workmen in the course of their work.

The Courts, between 1830 and 1840, curtailed the extent of an employer’s liability by grafting upon it an anomalous limitation.

An examination of the opinion of the court of appeals, against the right of the state governments to tax the bank of the United States, not with arrogance, but with humility;

Having thus opened the way for a more particular consideration of the opinion of the court, I shall proceed to exhibit to the reader extracts from the quotation, arranged with a view to the perspicuity of the argument.

The judgment of the court subverts our best counterpoise of power by power, and admits of an exemption from taxation in favour of wealth.

The court of Augustus — wife, daughter, grandchildren, ancestors, sister, Agrippa, kinsmen, household, friends, Areius, Maecenas, physicians, sacrificers — the death of a whole court.

Let no one any longer hear you finding fault with the life at court, nor hear yourself.