Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law, Volume 2

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J. Murray, 1873 - 1169 pages

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Page 1006 - Elle (la vente) est parfaite entre les parties, et la propriété est acquise de droit à l'acheteur à l'égard du vendeur dès qu'on est convenu de la chose et du prix, quoique la chose n'ait pas encore été livrée ni le prix payé.
Page 581 - Jus autem civile vel gentium ita dividitur : omnes populi, qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim sUO proprio, partim communi omnium hominum jure utuntur : nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi jus constituit, id ipsius proprium civitatis est vocaturque jus civile, quasi jus proprium ipsius civitatis : quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos perseque custoditur vocaturque jus gentium, quasi quo jure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 897 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant, before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Page 1006 - Si la chose qu'on s'est obligé de donner ou de livrer à deux personnes successivement, est purement mobilière, celle des deux qui en a été mise en possession réelle est préférée et en demeure propriétaire, encore que son titre soit postérieur en date, pourvu toutefois que la possession soit de bonne foi.
Page 1005 - La propriété des biens s'acquiert et se transmet par succession, .par donation entre-vifs ou testamentaire, et par l'effet des obligations.
Page 710 - England by adopting the treaty; but after the best consideration which I have been able to give to the subject...
Page 979 - The topics ordinarily discussed under this general heading, are those of husband and wife, parent and child, guardian and ward, master and servant.
Page 611 - The part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law itself is administered. That part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing rights or obtaining redress for their invasion.
Page 686 - A statute can seldom take in all cases. Therefore the Common Law, that works itself pure by rules drawn from the fountain of justice, is for this reason superior to an act of Parliament...
Page 683 - Accordingly, statutes made with great deliberation, and by learned and judicious lawyers, have been expressed so obscurely, or have been constructed so unaptly, that decisions interpreting the sense of their provisions, or supplying and correcting their provisions ex ratione legis, have been of necessity heaped upon them by the Courts of Justice. Such, for example, is the case with the Statute of Frauds ; which was made by three of the wisest lawyers in the reign of Charles the Second : Sir M. Hale...

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