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The Law of Libel; In Which Is Contained a General History of This Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, in the Law of England Comprehending a Digest of All the Leading Cases Upon Libels, from the Earliest to

The Law of Libel; In Which Is Contained a General History of This Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, in the Law of England Comprehending a Digest of All the Leading Cases Upon Libels, from the Earliest to


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...and such command is a good justification in false imprisonment, although there be neither seal nor writing, and although no cause be expressed in the commitment. The legal reason with respect to the Chief Justice or judge is, that the law will not presume any ignorance of his duty or abuse of it in so high an officer; and with respect to the marshal or his deputy, the command is a matter of notoriety, and impossible to be assumed or pretended, so as to serve as a cover for violence. The two reasons of writing and sealing failing, the person of the judge being certified in the very act, so as to designate him as the author of it, and the officer receiving the command ore tenus, the law does not extend its demands, where they are so evidently unnecessary. With respect to the alleged uncertainty of the privileges of parliament, we find the whole race of eminent lawyers, from Sir Edward Coke to Blackstone, concurring in one opinion, that the law of parliament, as a kind of general equity, is from its nature undefinable, and, like equity, would lose its effect and utility, if restricted within any letter whatever.--The natural use of it is to meet cases which are of themselves, necessarily, out of the possibility of definition; and the attempt to define which would be to reduce law itself to uncertainty.--A general law is as unnatural as a rigid equity--Whatever, from its nature, must be adminstered by discretion is necessarily extra regulum; or to use a legal phrase, equity cannot be ruled, and discretion is no longer such, than, whilst under the ordinary obligations it is left arbitrary.--If any number of rules were laid down, how easy would it be, by the addition of extraneous circumstances, to take every future case out of the compass of such rules.--Privile...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231174715
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231174714
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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