 | Alexander Luders - 1790 - 616 pages
...They are the depofitary of the laws ; the living oracles, who muft decide in all cafes of doubt, ar.d who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the hud. Their knowledge of that law is derived from experience and ftudy, from the " viginti aunorum tucubralines... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 518 pages
...of juftice. They are the depofitaries of the laws; the living oracles, who muft decide in all cafes of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowlege of that law is derived from experience and ftudy, from the "viginfi an<l norttm lucttbrationes"... | |
 | Law - 1791 - 568 pages
...Juftice ; for the they are the depofitory of the laws; the living oracles who rr.uiT, decide in all cafes of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land (£). But when once eflabliflied to be ^ ,.Bi.Com. a rule of the Common Law, their authority is fo... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...juftice. They are the depofitaries of the laws •, the living oracles, who muft decide in all cafes of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowlege of that lavr is derived from experience and fludy ; from the tc vigintl an" iiorum lucubratiines"... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 674 pages
...the depofitaries of the laws ; the living otacles, who muft decide in all cafes of doubt, and who arc bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowlege of that law is derived from experience and ftudy; from the " vigititi ati" norum lncubratianes"... | |
 | John Tappen - Forms (Law) - 1816 - 392 pages
...determined by ibe Judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depository of the laws, and bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. And it is an established rule to abide by former precedents where the same points come again in litigation."... | |
 | England - 1844 - 826 pages
...the decision of that venerable body of men, who are, in the language of our great commentator, "ffie depositaries of the laws, the living oracles, who...oath to decide according to the law of the land."* The questions which they had thus to consider, moreover, were not questions of rare, subtle, unusual,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...there validity to be determined ? The answer is, by the judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws ; the living oracles,...an oath to decide according to the law of the land. II. The second branch of the unwritten laws of England are particular customs, or laws which affect... | |
 | James Edward Jackson - Theology - 1825 - 414 pages
...validity is to be determined ? The answer is — By the judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws, the living oracles,...decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by oath to decide according to the law of the land." Ib. 79, 80. " In supposing our Saviour to have appointed... | |
 | 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... | |
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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;... 
