Court of Justice
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also in the atlas: Court of Justice the place
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The Rights of War and Peace (English)
It is a matter beyond all doubt that the liberty of private redress, which once existed, was greatly abridged after courts of justice were established.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The institution of adjudication presented as the psychological and structural center of early legal systems.
We may believe that the impressiveness of the early Courts of Justice was in part created by what to a modern eye were their infirmities.
It appears to me that this explanation covers the whole of the problem suggested by the classification of subjects in the primitive Codes which I cited.
The law has so formed our habits and ideas that Courts of Justice are rarely needed to compel obedience to it, and thus they have apparently fallen into the background.
The Rights of War and Peace
Public judicial institutions whose establishment is examined in relation to the persistence of private redress.
It is a matter beyond all doubt that the liberty of private redress, which once existed, was greatly abridged after courts of justice were established.
Yet although public trials and courts of justice are not institutions of nature, but erected by the invention of men, yet as it is much more conducive to the peace of society for a matter in dispute to be decided by a disinterested person, than by the partiality and prejudice of the party aggrieved, natural justice and reason will dictate the necessity and advantage of every one’s submitting to th …