 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 810 pages
...verdict give, according to law and the evidence, so help you God." In these cases under this statute, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to their duties and the law of the case, and their oath requires the jury to faithfully and impartially... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 796 pages
...convey them safely and without injury." Where a declaration contains several grounds of negligence, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to those upon which, alone, recovery can be based, and to eliminate the others. The court should, as requested,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...language, were also asked. They were all refused, and we think the Court was not bound to give them. It is the duty of the Court to instruct the jury as to the May Term, 1850 law; to inform them of the legal sequence resulting from given facts. Now, in this case,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1854 - 732 pages
...fish-dam is nearly two feet, the jury may find for the defendants." It was held, that it was the duty of the Court to instruct the jury as to the law, and inform them as to the legal sequence resulting from given facts ; but the Court was not bound to tell... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1856 - 744 pages
...Perhaps this disposition of the case was a little hasty, not to say slovenly. We do not decide that it is the duty of the Court to instruct the Jury as to the law, in every case, even though Counsel differ as to what the law is, whether the Court is requested to... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 898 pages
...party accused of a crime, that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the Court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to...law, as it is laid down by the Court. This is the light of every citizen, and it is his only protection. If the jury were at liberty to settle the law... | |
 | Daniel Edgar Sickles, Felix Gregory De Fontaine - Trials (Murder) - 1859 - 140 pages
...controlling in this District, from 5th Cranch, in which was emhodied the remark of Judge Story : " That it is the duty of the Court to instruct the jury as to the law, and the duty of the jury to follow the law thus laid down. The Distr'ci-Attorney had stated what are the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 606 pages
...the law required the plaintiff to perform, before he could rescind the contract. It is the province of the court to instruct the jury as to the law, and for the jury to find the facts. This instruction leaves the jury to find both the law and the facts.... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Court rules - 1864 - 950 pages
...party accused of a crime that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to...and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law as laid down by the court. This is the right of every citizen, and it is his only protection. If the jury... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 1310 pages
...criminal, they have the moral right to decide the law according to their own notions or pleasure. It is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. If the jury were at liberty to settle the law for themselves, the effect would be, not only that the... | |
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It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the Court. 
