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  • On being invited to come in and be seated he joked and said he preferred to wait outdoors as he was only wearing work clothes until the Gaddy woman, said to be his common-law wife, came outside the frame structure.†   (source)
  • Takes ALICE'S hand) I stand on the wrong side of no statute, and no common law.†   (source)
  • In Great Britain, the copyright of authors is a right of common law.†   (source)
  • The trial by jury prevails only in the courts of common law and there are exceptions.†   (source)
  • Some may be determined in the course of the COMMON LAW and others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†   (source)
  • In some, every cause is tried in a court of common law.†   (source)
  • In New York, the line between common law and equitable jurisdiction follow the rules in England.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania doesn't have a court of chancery, and its common-law courts have equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Their common-law courts have admiralty and some equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Juries in the common-law courts of New York State determine disputed facts.†   (source)
  • The time-honored, common-law concept of property—a man's interest in and duties to that property—has become almost extinct.†   (source)
  • To counterbalance the effect of these new political allies, the authorities also put a handful of common-law prisoners in our section.†   (source)
  • The cooks—all of whom were common-law prisoners—kept the best food for themselves or their friends.†   (source)
  • Every Sunday, I would supply vegetables to the kitchen so that they could cook a special meal for the common-law prisoners.†   (source)
  • With the exception of ourselves, all men at Pollsmoor were common-law prisoners, and their treatment was backward.†   (source)
  • Common-law prisoners were used to dish out the food to us and we would return to our cells to eat it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we would see a group of common-law prisoners working by the side of the road, and their warders would order them into the bushes so they would not see us as we marched past.†   (source)
  • We were immediately joined by a number of prisoners who had been held in the general section of the prison, a squat brick building not far from Section B. The general prison, known as sections F and G, contained about a thousand mostly common-law prisoners.†   (source)
  • Normally, officials would not permit a political prisoner to share the same vehicle with a common-law criminal, but I suspect they were hoping I would be intimidated by Nkadimeng, who I assumed was a police informer.†   (source)
  • The New Jersey courts of common law have the jurisdiction in cases that in New York are determined in the courts of admiralty and of probates.†   (source)
  • But if it is thought too extensive, it might be limited to causes determined at common law by jury trials.†   (source)
  • New York has courts of common law, courts of probates (similar to the spiritual courts in England), a court of admiralty, and a court of chancery.†   (source)
  • Every action may be considered an action at common law to be determined by a jury, if any of the involved parties choose it.†   (source)
  • But the line between the different types of laws—common law, statute law, maritime law, ecclesiastical law, corporate law, and local laws and customs—still isn't clearly defined.†   (source)
  • It says: "In civil actions between citizens of different States, every issue of fact, arising in actions at common law, may be tried by a jury if the parties, or either of them, request it."†   (source)
  • But in another, the same cause must be decided without a jury, because the State judicatories vary as to common-law jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Georgia has only common-law courts.†   (source)
  • Before the Massachusetts suggestion can be used, all the States must adopt one plan that sets the limits of common-law and equitable jurisdictions.†   (source)
  • From one of the little white tables between the cots Theresa picked up an opened book incautiously left there the night before, read below her gray mustache with the still inward smile of her greatboned face, its title—The Common Law, by Robert W. Chambers—and gripping a pencil in her broad earthstained hand, scrawled briefly in jagged male letters: "Rubbish, Elizabeth—but see for yourself."†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • "Little Women" (twice), "The Common Law,"†   (source)
  • '—'You have determined, then, to abandon her to the common law?' said Carlini.†   (source)
  • The nervous language of the Common Law,[585] the impressive forms of our courts, and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.†   (source)
  • In truth, while all men act under one common law that is termed nature, the varieties in their dispositions, modes of judging, feelings, and selfishness are infinite.†   (source)
  • This repugnance naturally attains its utmost height in an absolute Government; and, on the other hand, the privileges of the courts of justice are extended with the increasing liberties of the people: but no European nation has at present held that all judicial controversies, without regard to their origin, can be decided by the judges of common law.†   (source)
  • When inequality of conditions is the common law of society, the most marked inequalities do not strike the eye: when everything is nearly on the same level, the slightest are marked enough to hurt it.†   (source)
  • I do think, Judge Temple, that such dangerous amusements should be suppressed, by statute; nay, I doubt whether they are not already indict able at common law.†   (source)
  • 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.†   (source)
  • The punishments of the common law were still known, at the time of our tale, to the people of New York; and the whipping-post, and its companion, the stocks, were not yet supplanted by the more merciful expedients of the public prison.†   (source)
  • In the United States the contrary takes place; and although the decision of the Senate is judicial in its form, since the Senators are obliged to comply with the practices and formalities of a court of justice; although it is judicial in respect to the motives on which it is founded, since the Senate is in general obliged to take an offence at common law as the basis of its sentence; nevertheless the object of the proceeding is purely administrative.†   (source)
  • Article VII In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.†   (source)
  • Men have lost the common law of manners, and they have not yet made up their minds to do without it; but everyone endeavors to make to himself some sort of arbitrary and variable rule, from the remnant of former usages; so that manners have neither the regularity and the dignity which they often display amongst aristocratic nations, nor the simplicity and freedom which they sometimes assume in democracies; they are at once constrained and without constraint.†   (source)
  • The office of justice of the peace I try'd a little, by attending a few courts, and sitting on the bench to hear causes; but finding that more knowledge of the common law than I possess'd was necessary to act in that station with credit, I gradually withdrew from it, excusing myself by my being oblig'd to attend the higher duties of a legislator in the Assembly.†   (source)
  • Amendment VII In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.†   (source)
  • She was entitled to her widow's dower At common law.†   (source)
  • Yet this is set down by a great Lawyer for the common Law of England.†   (source)
  • The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law.†   (source)
  • In the courts of common law only, the trial by jury prevails, and this with some exceptions.†   (source)
  • Their common-law courts have admiralty and, to a certain extent, equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • In this there are several degrees: to pay every man his own is the common law of honesty: but to do good to all mankind, is the chancery law of honesty: and this chancery court is in every man's breast, where his conscience is a Lord Chancellor.†   (source)
  • Felony is a term of loose signification, even in the common law of England; and of various import in the statute law of that kingdom.†   (source)
  • For the Judges of the Common Law of England, are not properly Judges, but Juris Consulti; of whom the Judges, who are either the Lords, or Twelve men of the Country, are in point of Law to ask advice.†   (source)
  • As for example, "That the Common Law, hath no Controuler but the Parlament;" which is true onely where a Parlament has the Soveraign Power, and cannot be assembled, nor dissolved, but by their own discretion.†   (source)
  • It is in this form: "In civil actions between citizens of different States, every issue of fact, arising in ACTIONS AT COMMON LAW, may be tried by a jury if the parties, or either of them request it."†   (source)
  • In this State, the boundaries between actions at common law and actions of equitable jurisdiction, are ascertained in conformity to the rules which prevail in England upon that subject.†   (source)
  • We have courts of common law, courts of probates (analogous in certain matters to the spiritual courts in England), a court of admiralty and a court of chancery.†   (source)
  • This would certainly be an authorized exception; but if, for the reason already intimated, it should be thought too extensive, it might be qualified with a limitation to such causes only as are determinable at common law in that mode of trial.†   (source)
  • The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†   (source)
  • In that State the courts of common law have the cognizance of those causes which with us are determinable in the courts of admiralty and of probates, and of course the jury trial is more extensive in New Jersey than in New York.†   (source)
  • In some of them every cause is to be tried in a court of common law, and upon that foundation every action may be considered as an action at common law, to be determined by a jury, if the parties, or either of them, choose it.†   (source)
  • The precise extent of the common law, and the statute law, the maritime law, the ecclesiastical law, the law of corporations, and other local laws and customs, remains still to be clearly and finally established in Great Britain, where accuracy in such subjects has been more industriously pursued than in any other part of the world.†   (source)
  • In Pennsylvania, this is perhaps still more the case, for there is no court of chancery in that State, and its common-law courts have equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • In one State a cause would receive its determination from a jury, if the parties, or either of them, requested it; but in another State, a cause exactly similar to the other, must be decided without the intervention of a jury, because the State judicatories varied as to common-law jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Though the common-law courts of this State ascertain disputed facts by a jury, yet they unquestionably have jurisdiction of both fact and law; and accordingly when the former is agreed in the pleadings, they have no recourse to a jury, but proceed at once to judgment.†   (source)
  • It is obvious, therefore, that the Massachusetts proposition, upon this subject cannot operate as a general regulation, until some uniform plan, with respect to the limits of common-law and equitable jurisdictions, shall be adopted by the different States.†   (source)
  • In Georgia there are none but common-law courts, and an appeal of course lies from the verdict of one jury to another, which is called a special jury, and for which a particular mode of appointment is marked out.†   (source)
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