 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...and the birth of a posthumous child, amount to a revocation of a will executed previous to 2. A MAN'S limbs (by which for the present we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature. To these therefore he has a natural... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...if it were then actually born. r (8) And in this point the civil law agrees with ours % 2. A MAN'S limbs (by which for the present we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature. To these therefore he has a natural... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...it were then actually born, (r) " And in this point the civil law agrees with ours. (») 2. A man's limbs (by which for the present we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature. To these therefore, he has a natural... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...were then actually born (r) (21). And in this point the civil law agrees with ours (*). 2. A man's limbs (by which for the present we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to (a) Si aliquis mulierem pregnanlem pcrcuuerit, vel ei venenum dederit, per quod fecerit abortivam;... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...then actually bora (r), (12), (13). And in this point the civil law agrees with ours (s). 2. A man's limbs (by which for the present, we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in л state of nature. To these therefore he has a natural... | |
 | Charles Richardson - English language - 1839 - 928 pages
...appear-NESS. anee of, or disable from the use -1NO. of; to lame by mutilation; to MAI " By a man's limbs for the present we only understand those members which...which alone amounts to mayhem by the common law." — Blackstone. Sk.— perhaps from Fr. JUaymit, mutilated ; mehaing, mutilation ; mehait/пст, to... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...for the present we only a. for Hmb». understand those members which may be useful to him in sight, and the loss of which alone amounts to mayhem by the...law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature. To these therefore he has a natural... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...heir may enter and receive the profits for his own use till the birth of the child(A). £2. A man's limbs (by which for the present we only understand...law) are also the gift of the wise creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature.]] To these therefore, as to life... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...functions. (Bulwer's Stud.) A man's limbs (by which for the present we only understand those members, the loss of which alone amounts to mayhem by the common law) are the gifts of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from external injuries (Blackstone.)... | |
 | Charles Richardson - English language - 1856 - 952 pages
...appear-NF.8S. ance of, or disable from the use -ING. of; to lame by mutilation; to " By a man's limbs for the present we only understand those members which...him in fight, and the loss of which alone amounts to maykrm by the common law." — Blackilrme. 8k.— perhaps from Fr. Haymii. mutilated : «v haing, mutilation... | |
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A MAN'S limbs (by which for the present we only understand those members which may be useful to him in fight, and the loss of which alone amounts to mayhem by the common law) are also the gift of the wise Creator, to enable him to protect himself from... 
