 | William Herbert - Inns of Chancery - 1804 - 454 pages
...customs or maxims are known, and their validity determined by the judges in the several courts, who are the depositaries of the laws ; the living oracles...decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowledge of that law is derived from experience... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...material, question [69] arises : how are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is their validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in...decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowledge of that law is derived from experience... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...• question arises ; How are those customs " or maxims to be known, and by whom " is their validity to be determined ? The " answer is, by the Judges in the several " courts of justice." It should seem to ouuage every principle of common sense to say that'he who insists upon a usage to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...question arises ; How are those customs "or maxims to be known, and by whom " is their validity to he determined ? The " answer is, by the Judges in the several " courts of justice. " It should seem to outrage every principle of common .sense to say that he who insists upon a usage... | |
 | England - 1844 - 826 pages
...material question arises: how are these customs or maxims to be known ; and by whom is their validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in...of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws — tIte living oracles, who must decide in all cases of doubt, and arc bound by an oath to decide... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...common law for their support. How are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is there validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in...decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. II. The second branch of the unwritten laws of... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...question arises : [ 69 ] how are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is their validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in...decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowledge of that law is derived from experience... | |
 | 1825 - 588 pages
...determined ? The answer is, by the Judges of the several Courts of Justice, They are the depositories of the laws ; — the living oracles who must decide in all cases of doubt, and vcho are bound by their oath to decide according to the law of the land. It is their decisions, preserved... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...support. But here a question arises, How are these customs to be known? and by whom is their validity to be determined? The answer is, By the judges in the several courts of law. They are to decide in all cases of doubt, and are bound by an oath to decide according to the... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...material, question arises : [ 69 how are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is their validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in the several courts ot'justice. They are the depositaries of the laws, the living oracles, who must decide in all cases... | |
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But here a very natural, and very material, question arises; how are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is their validity to be determined? The answer is, by the judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws;... 
