 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which affect only the inhabitants of particular districts....courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. I. As to general customs, or the common law, properly Norman laws is strongly illustrated by land,... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - 1847 - 264 pages
...customs ; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law in its stricter and more usual signification ; 2. particular customs ;...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. "f But Blackstone limits his meaning by various cautions. " The authority of these maxims rests entirely,"... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...unwritten law of England, consists of three kinds, to wit, general customs, particular customs, and certain particular laws, which, by custom are adopted...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. Of the latter class is the canon or eclesiastical law, and therefore a part of the common law of Great... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...customs ; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs ;...particular districts. 3. Certain particular laws," (the civil and canon law) " which by custom are adopted and used by some particular courts." The existence... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 640 pages
...but also of the decrees of courts of justice, of the opinions of learned jurists, and of the silent but irresistible usages of the people in the arrangements...general maxims and principles of English jurisprudence, euch as the regulation of the descent of estates, the exposition of contracts and wills, the remedies... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 628 pages
...but also of the decrees of courts of justice, of the opinions of learned jurists, and of the silent but irresistible usages of the people in the arrangements...courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. (1 JBL Comm. 67.) The first embraces the general maxims and principles of English jurisprudence, such... | |
 | Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun - Canon law - 1851 - 722 pages
...signification. 2nd. Particular Customs ; which affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3rd. Certain Particular Laws ; which by custom are adopted...Courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. Among the first he places the precedents which guide the ordinary courts of justice, — these are... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which,...districts. 3. Certain particular laws ; which, by custom, arc adopted and used by some particular courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. />Q#-I... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...form tho common law in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular oustome, which atlect only the inhabitants of particular districts. 3. Certain...particular laws which, by custom, are adopted and U3ed by some particular courts of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. General customs, or common... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...signification. II. Particular customs; which affect only the inhabitants of particular districts. III. Certain particular laws; which, by custom, are adopted...courts, of pretty general and extensive jurisdiction. I. As to general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; this is that law by which proceedings... | |
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This unwritten, or common law, is properly distinguishable into three kinds: 1. General customs; which are the universal rule of the whole kingdom, and form the common law, in its stricter and more usual signification. 2. Particular customs; which for... 
