 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1825 - 562 Seiten
...but I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered law in West(a) J- *• minster hall, if what Lord Coke says without authority is...particularly when it is in conformity with justice and common sense. Opposed to this, as I have stated, is the case of Attree v. Scutt. I shall read the judgment... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1827 - 842 Seiten
...I fear we should get rid of a great deal of what is considered law in Westminster Hall, if what he says, without authority, is not law. He was one of...such a person is good evidence of what the law is, although he refers to no express decision, and particularly when it is in conformity with justice and... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1870 - 730 Seiten
...am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered law in »097-1 * Westminster-hall, if what Lord COKE says without authority is not law....particularly when it is in conformity with justice and common sense. Opposed to this, as I have stated, is the case of Jittree v. Scutt. I shall read the judgment... | |
 | 1896 - 866 Seiten
...had no authority for what he states; but I am afraid," he adds, "that we should get rid of a great deal of what is considered law in Westminster Hall,...such a person is good evidence of what the law is." (2 Bing. 296-7). In reference to a position in the Digest of Chief Baron Comyns, the same learned judge... | |
 | 1871 - 396 Seiten
...exposition of the common law. In rendering judgment Chief Justice Best spoke of one of them as follows: "I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law." * Strong as is the human instinct to venerate antiquity, it cannot be said with any truth that the... | |
 | 1873 - 410 Seiten
...Jurisdiction is inaccurate and untrustworthy," Per Sir W. Phillimore in The Sylph, LR 2 Ad. i Ее. 27. ' ' I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law." Per Best CJ, in 2 Bing, 29в. "The 12th part is not so accurate as the rest, not having been published... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 Seiten
...judicial decision that no judge can now disregard them. ' I am afraid,' .said Chief-justice Best, ' we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law' (2 Sing. 296). The ' Institutes ' are in four parts : the first is a reprint of Littleton's treatise... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1894 - 242 Seiten
...Constitutional Restraint-;.") Chief Justice Best from the Dench said, " I am afraid that we should gel rid of a good deal of what is considered law in Westminster...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law." 2 lung, 296. One other case which afterwards told heavily upon women we may note. " Coke artfully inserted... | |
 | 1902 - 938 Seiten
...doctrines have in this way become firmly imbedded in the law. " I am afraid," said Chief Justice Best, " we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law." l Still, it is less true now than formerly that his works have, as Blackstone said, "an intrinsic authority... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 Seiten
...of the early Year Books, and many imaginary rules of law. ' I am afraid,' said chief justice Best, ' we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered...what Lord Coke says without authority is not law.' Nevertheless, he did a great and useful work for English law, and, therefore, for England. In his Reports... | |
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The fact is Lord Coke had no authority for what he states, but I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered law in Westminster Hall if what Lord Coke says without authority is not law. He was one of the most eminent lawyers that... 
