 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1788 - 256 pages
...There is nothing more dangerous than tha Common axiom i the fpirit bf the iaios is to bi tonfidered. To adopt it is to give way to the torrent of opinions. This may feem a paradox to vulgar minds, which are more ftfongly affected by the fmalleft diforder before their... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1819 - 314 pages
...conclusion liberty or punishment. If the judge be obliged, by the imperfection of the laws, or chuses to make any other, or more syllogisms than this, it...disorder before their eyes, than by the most pernicious, EE though remote, consequences, produced by one false principle adopted by a nation." The use or abuse... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
..."there is nothing more dan gerous 'han the common axiom: The tfirit of th, lawt is ta te coniitkreJ. To adopt it, is to give way to the torrent of opinions." "When the code о laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense." "When the rule of... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 pages
...dignity of the person offended ;" " not on the sin of the heart, for that is impenetrable to men." ^ 8. " There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom, the spirit of the law is to be considered." It lets in a torrent of opinion, depends on the good or bad logic of the... | |
 | Alexander Maconochie - Australia - 1838 - 246 pages
...obedience which it sometimes generates, — or the bullying arrogance, designing knavery, and reck* " There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom, the spirit of the laws is to be considered. Every man has his own particular views, and at different times sees the same objects in many different... | |
 | Alexander Maconochie - Penal colonies - 1839 - 288 pages
...obedience which it sometimes generates, — or the bullying arrogance, designing knavery, and reck* ' ' There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom, the spirit of the laws is to be considered. Every man has his own particular views, and at different times sees the same objects in many different... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 712 pages
...W7tcaton,202. The Marquis Beccaria, in his admirable little treatise on Crimes, thus expresses himself: " There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom — the spirit of the laws is to bo considered. To adopt it, is to give way to the torrent of opinions. Our knowledge is in proportion... | |
 | Frank Gilbert - Railroad law - 1873 - 354 pages
...which bore a conspicuous part in the reform of the judicial system of France, Voltaire insists that u there is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom: the spirit of the laws is to he considered. To adopt it is to give way to the torrent of opinion. When the code of laws is once... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...continue his ideas, yet a little further upon this subject — they are so exactly in point. He says, " there is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom...adopt it, is to give way to the torrent of opinions." " When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense." "When the rule... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1885 - 760 pages
...know when he is a criminal and when innocent." (45.) "There is nothing more dangerous than thecommon axiom, the spirit of the laws is to be considered....strongly affected by the smallest disorder before thuir eyes than by 'the most pernicious, though remote, consequences produced by one false principle... | |
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There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom : The spirit of the laws is to be considered. To adopt it is to give way to the torrent of opinions. 
