The Court
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the Courts · the judges · a Court · judges · our tribunals · that respectable body of men · the court · the court of Augustus · the court of appeals · the life at court
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)
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 …
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English judicial bodies whose decisions, recorded in law reports, indirectly make law.
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 …
The Courts, between 1830 and 1840, curtailed the extent of an employer’s liability by grafting upon it an anomalous limitation.
—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.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The tribunal whose opinion, denying state governments the right to tax the Bank of the United States, is quoted at length and then examined and refuted throughout the passage.
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy;
So far the doctrine of the court, though erroneous, is consistent.
“There is no phrase in the constitution which excludes incidental or implied powers.
Meditations
The imperial court, both as a present social setting and as exemplified by the vanished court of Augustus.
Let no one any longer hear you finding fault with the life at court, nor hear yourself.
The court of Augustus — wife, daughter, grandchildren, ancestors, sister, Agrippa, kinsmen, household, friends, Areius, Maecenas, physicians, sacrificers — the death of a whole court.