Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction: Including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and Divers Constituted Authorities in the American United States, 第 4 巻、第 3 号、第 1 部

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37 ページ - Traverse the whole continent of Europe, — ransack all the libraries belonging to the jurisprudential systems of the several political states, — add the contents, all together, — you would not be able to compose a collection of cases equal in variety, in amplitude, in clearness of statelBenthairis Works, vol.
37 ページ - Traverse the whole continent of Europe — ransack all the libraries belonging to the jurisprudential systems of the several political states, — add the contents all together, — you would not be able to compose a collection of cases equal in variety, in amplitude, in clearness of statement, — in a word, in all points taken together, in instruct! veness — to that which may be seen to be afforded by the collection of English Reports of adjudged cases, on adding to them the abridgments and treatises,...
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35 ページ - Yes, Sir, so long as there remains any, the smallest scrap, of unwritten law unextirpated, it suffices to taint with its own corruption, — its own inbred and incurable corruption, — whatso* ever portion of statute law has ever been, or can ever be, applied to it.
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100 ページ - General Assembly a system of Public Education, calculated to give effect to the appropriations made to that object by the Legislature, heretofore, and during the present session, and to comprehend in such a system the establishment of one University, to be called, 'The University of Virginia...
102 ページ - Accept my services, — no man of tolerably liberal education but shall, if he pleases, know — know, and without effort — much more of law, than, at the end of the longest course of the intensest efforts, it is possible for the ablest lawyer to know at present. No man, be he even without education in other respects — no man but, in his leisure hours, — so he can but read — may, if...
37 ページ - ... Reports of adjudged cases, on adding to them the abridgments and treatises, by which a sort of order, such as' it is, has been given to their contents. Of these necessary materials, the stock already in hand is not only rich, but, one may venture to say, sufficient : nor, to the composition of a complete body of law, in which, saving the requisite allowance to be made for human weakness, every imaginable case shall be provided for, and provided for in the best manner, is anything at present wanting...
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