The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the revolution of 1688, to the death of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, in 1806. 2vJ. Murray, 1845 |
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Página iii
... Appointed Lord Chancellor , 13. His Conduct as a Judge , 13. He passes Patent , giving Precedence to Somerset with a non ob- stante , 14. A Parliament , 15. Wholesome Laws passed , 15. Reformation of Religion , 15 . Quarrel between the ...
... Appointed Lord Chancellor , 13. His Conduct as a Judge , 13. He passes Patent , giving Precedence to Somerset with a non ob- stante , 14. A Parliament , 15. Wholesome Laws passed , 15. Reformation of Religion , 15 . Quarrel between the ...
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... appointed Lord Chancellor , 114. His Birth , 115. Bred to the Law , 115. Made Solicitor Ge- neral , 115. His Conduct on Trial of Duke of Norfolk , 115 . Evidences to sup- 124 . port the Charge , 117. Found guilty , and executed , 118 ...
... appointed Lord Chancellor , 114. His Birth , 115. Bred to the Law , 115. Made Solicitor Ge- neral , 115. His Conduct on Trial of Duke of Norfolk , 115 . Evidences to sup- 124 . port the Charge , 117. Found guilty , and executed , 118 ...
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... Appoint- ment as Lord Keeper , 183. He proves a consummate Judge , 183. His De- cisions , 184. Offends Common - law Judges , by granting Injunctions , 185. Is defeated in Attempts to enforce Decrees in Equity by imposing Fines , 185. A ...
... Appoint- ment as Lord Keeper , 183. He proves a consummate Judge , 183. His De- cisions , 184. Offends Common - law Judges , by granting Injunctions , 185. Is defeated in Attempts to enforce Decrees in Equity by imposing Fines , 185. A ...
Página ix
... appointed to treat of Union , 222. Gunpowder Plot , 222. Mea- sure of Union resumed , 223. Resisted by the English , 223. Question of Naturalisation of " Postnati , " 223. Calvin's Case , 224. Judgment of Lord Chancellor , 225 . Two ...
... appointed to treat of Union , 222. Gunpowder Plot , 222. Mea- sure of Union resumed , 223. Resisted by the English , 223. Question of Naturalisation of " Postnati , " 223. Calvin's Case , 224. Judgment of Lord Chancellor , 225 . Two ...
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... Justice of the King's Bench appointed Speaker of the House of Lords , 386. Commons demand a Conference on Charges against the Chancellor , 386. Bacon's Letter to the 384 . Peers , 386 . Answer of the Peers , 387. xii CONTENTS .
... Justice of the King's Bench appointed Speaker of the House of Lords , 386. Commons demand a Conference on Charges against the Chancellor , 386. Bacon's Letter to the 384 . Peers , 386 . Answer of the Peers , 387. xii CONTENTS .
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 60 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Página 277 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind...
Página 420 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Página 412 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Página 337 - If you take my lord Coke, this will follow ; first your majesty shall put an over-ruling nature into an over-ruling place, which may breed an extreme; next you shall blunt his industries in matter of your finances, which seemeth to aim at another place; and lastly, popular men are no sure mounters for your majesty's saddle.
Página 293 - You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.
Página 346 - ... your reproofs or commendations are for the most part neglected and contemned ; when the censure of a judge, coming slow but sure, should be a brand to the guilty, and a crown to the virtuous. You will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion of your wit ; and so do all actions which we see you do directly with a touch of vainglory, having no respect to the true end. You make the law to lean...
Página 594 - It was true, we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.
Página 297 - ... and other such strange light terms he gave me, with that insulting which cannot be expressed. Herewith stirred, yet I said no more but this : " Mr. Attorney, do not depress me so far ; for I have been your better, and may be again, when it please the Queen.
Página 337 - ... any great man to do it where you can hinder it. If it should prevail, it perverts justice; but if the judge be so just, and of such courage as he ought to be, as not to be inclined thereby, yet it always leaves a taint of suspicion behind it.