Court of Justice
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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.
The suggestion, then, which I offer is that the authority of the Court of Justice overshadowed all other ideas and considerations in the minds of these early code-makers, belonging to societies of the Aryan race so remote from one another and so unlike to one another.
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.
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.
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 …