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...es industry to pamper idleness; and I hear that in one village of Savaii a law has been passed forbidding gifts under the pen- alty of a sharp fine. U... ...y of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native criminals is no officer of the native king’s; and that this, the only port ... ...ly how all things, land and food and property, pass progressively, as by a law of nature, into the hands of Misi Ueba, and soon nothing will be left f... ...ort and sharp. Death, deporta- tion by the primitive method of setting the criminal to sea in a canoe, fines, and in Samoa itself the penalty of publi... ..., harbour malice for a period of years: continuous shame at- taches to the criminal; even when he is doing his best – even when he is submitting to th... ... banded conspiracy, from the king and the vice-king downward, to evade the law and deprive the Germans of their profits. In 1883, accordingly, the con... ... acted on the requisition of his consul, who was alone responsible on “the legal side”; and declined accordingly to discuss “whether the lives of Brit... ...s, as he had written long before, the consul alone was responsible “on the legal side”; but the captain began to ask himself, “What next?” – tele- gra... ... direct home for instructions, “Is arrest of foreigners on foreign vessels legal?” – and was ready, at a word from Captain Hand, to discharge his dang...

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...y associates, by suggesting that, if the outsides were in- dicted for this criminal attempt at the next assizes, the court would regard it as a case o... ...e high table, or dais, it then be- came possible to assume as a fiction of law that the three delf fellows, after all, were not present. They could be... ...e, touch a hair of your head he cannot whilst you keep house and have your legal domicile on the box of the mail. It is felony to stop the mail; even ... ...sed by an obsti- nate sailor bound to Devonport. Jack, making light of the law and the lawgiver that had set their faces against his of- fence, insist... ...asonable terrors. Not the less impressive were those terrors because their legal limits were imperfectly ascertained. Look at those turnpike gates: wi... ...? Or can it be fancied, amongst the weakest of men, that the bodies of the criminals will be given up to their widows for Christian burial? Now, the d... ...ertainty, than could have been effected by the sharpest definitions of the law from the Quarter Sessions. We, on our parts (we, the collective mail, I... ... man of apprehensive con- science, would mingle the misery of an atrocious criminality with the misery of a bloody calamity. You are called upon, by t... ...nevi- *It is true that, according to the law of the case as established by legal precedents, all carriages were required to give way before royal equi...

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...not? Y.M. Because its performance is not personal. It is the result of the law of construction. It is not a merit that it does the things which it is... ...t does so little? Y.M. Certainly not. It does no more and no less than the law of its make permits and compels it to do. There is nothing personal a... ...one automatically—by your mental machinery, in strict accordance with the law of that machinery’s con struction. And you not only did not make that ... ...ith the sick. That is to say, they put the beginners in with the confirmed criminals. This would be well if man were naturally inclined to good, but h... ...uld you or I. Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving ... ...t; and whether his law court procedure is correct or not, and whether his legal shop talk is the shop talk of a veteran practitioner or only a machin... ...nted with the manners and customs of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making... ...to the law to avoid dis playing their ignorance if they venture to employ legal terms and to discuss legal doctrines. “There is nothing so dan gerou... ...irreverence no longer, because I will not al low it. The first time those criminals charge me with irrev erence for calling their Stratford myth an ...

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...but a useful and immensely profitable discovery; and after his brother- in-law went to Paris, he became more and more absorbed in the problem which he... ...aris, heart-sinking letters that told his mother and sister and brother-in-law of his failure and distress; and when Eve, Mme. Chardon, and David each... ...work girls. His morality, learned in Paris drinking-saloons, laid down the law of self-interest as the sole rule of guidance; he knew, moreover, that ... ...the sheets, and returning them in the morning. He came to be on fa- miliar terms with them through the daily chat, and at length saw a chance of escap... ... francs’ worth of bills to meet; he will not meet them; you will stave off legal proceedings in such a way as to increase the expenses enormously. Don... ...all make apparent manifold atrocities lurking beneath the formidable word “legal.” Master Doublon registered the protest and went himself with it to M... ...aft upon his colleague in Paris. The fifth is a charge for postage and the legal interest due upon the amount for the time that it may happen to be ab... ...oney under pressure of want, and take it by force. These people are called criminals; and, perforce, they square ac- counts with Justice. A poor man o... ...ndemned—the three gradu- ated subdivisions of the class generically styled criminal. David was put for the time being in a cell on the ground floor fr...

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... ciprocal blessings of which, would supersede, and render the obligations of law and government unnec essary while they remained perfectly just to e... ...gland than in some other countries, but the WILL of the king is as much the LAW of the land in Britain as in France, with this difference, that inste... ...ing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no divinity in ... ...ath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pr... ... in a just estimation, it is as great a folly to pay a Bunker hill price for law, as for land. As I have always considered the independancy of this co... ...unsellors, and the whole, being em powered by the people, will have a truly legal author ity. The conferring members being met, let their busi ness... ...the sword; and until we consent, that the seat of government, in America, be legally and authoritatively occupied, we shall be in danger of having it ... ... object before them, they pursue such as fancy or opinion starts. Nothing is criminal; there is no such thing as treason; wherefore, every one thinks ... ...E of those THREE, will one day or other, be the fate of America, viz. By the legal voice of the people in Congress; by a military power; or by a mob—I...

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...her half of this sheet; and still another set, if you can, by studying the law, think of a form that in your judgment, promises additional security, a... ...souri and Maryland. With the same reason in both States, Missouri has, by law, provided a test for the voter with refer- ence to the present rebellio... ..., captured fighting us at Gettysburg, is, without recanting his treason, a legal voter by the laws of Maryland. Even General Schenck’s order admits h... ...feitures and con- fiscation of property and liberation of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated, and also declaring that the Presi- den... ... not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing imme- diately before the so-called act of secessi... ...should not be deprived of the proper quota of educated officers, for which legal provision has been made at the naval school, the vacancies caused by ... ...rstand an effort is being made by some worthy gentle- men to reconstruct a legal State government in Florida. Florida is in your Department, and it ... ...g foreign slave trad- ers from acquiring domicile and facilities for their criminal oc- cupation in our country. It is possible that if it were a new ... ...he evidence discloses, I am wholly unable to be- lieve in the existence of criminal or fraudulent intent on the part of men of such well established g...

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... with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility’s edu cation entirely changed; the physici... ..., and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the ... ...entory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars. He first called for my scim... ...to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people so highly re sented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on... ... endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. During the course of these troubles, the empe... ... advantage. I remember, when I was once interceding with the em peror for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had... ...nd appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of Snilpall, or legal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.... ...ch I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and r... .... “It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all...

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...he is willing to elevate black men to office and to associate with them on terms of perfect equality. He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as t... ...y will do nothing that can give proper offence to those who hold slaves by legal sanction; but they will use every constitutional method to prevent th... ... that, by our frame of government, that principle has not been made one of legal obligation; that by our frame of government, States which have slaver... ...decide the facts between P . & B. and S.C. It is said that under a general law, whenever a R. R. Co. gets tired of its debts, it may transfer fraudule... ...question of fraud in either case? It is said, if a purchaser have acquired legal rights, let him not be robbed of them, but if he needs legislation le... ... not be robbed of them, but if he needs legislation let him submit to just terms to obtain it. Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded i... ...n let him submit to just terms to obtain it. Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when... ...ishes the true rule for surveyors in establishing lines between them. That law, being in force at the time each became a purchaser, becomes a con- dit... ... subjects of your Highness in Upper Egypt, who were concerned in an act of criminal persecution against Faris, an agent of certain Chris- tian mission...

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...lands, men who once had authority and now have less and less; men who love law, and will have even an Explosion explode itself, as far as possible, ac... ...opolic Momoro, seem to hint afar off at something which smells of Agrarian Law, and a surgery of the overswoln dropsical strong-box itself;—whereat in... ...ry, honour, of Heaven and of Earth: to no purpose. The Municipals have, by law, the power of ordering it;— with an Army officered by Royalism or Crypt... ...f such stuff are we all made; on such powder-mines of bottomless guilt and criminality, ‘if God restrained not; as is well said,—does the purest of us... ...ther, ninety-three years old. As for the Orleans Prisoners, they are State Criminals: Royalist Ministers, Delessarts, Montmorins; who have been accumu... ... these times an Improvised insurrectionary Commune passing into an Elected legal one; getting their accounts settled,—not without irritancy! Petion ha... ...r has its scepticism; miraculous victory its rage of vengeance. Then as to criminalty, is the prostrated Giant, who will devour us if he rise, an inno... ... so far. Nay here comes a second Committee-reporter, Deputy Mailhe, with a Legal Argument, very prosy to read now, very refreshing to hear then, That,... ...bouring Committee-room; having first, in leaving the bar, demanded to have Legal Counsel. He declines refresh- ment, in this Committee-room, then, see...

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... of secret labor, and hid the virtue of a saint. His superior knowledge of law proved so strong a recommendation at a time when Napoleon was reorganiz... ... was appointed super- numerary judge. There was a general outcry among the law- yers: “Popinot a supernumerary!” Such injustice struck the legal world... ... among the law- yers: “Popinot a supernumerary!” Such injustice struck the legal world with dismay—the attorneys, the registrars, ev- erybody but Popi... ...r the best in the best of all possible worlds, which must certainly be the legal world. Popinot remained supernumerary judge till the day when the mos... ...ne. T o account for the obscure fortunes of one of the superior men of the legal profession, it is necessary to enter here into some details which wil... ...ll who pasture on the legal common, distinguish two elements in every case—law and equity. Equity is the outcome of facts, law is the application of p... ... its difficult functions, and he had the reputation of being so learned in criminal law that his duty was a pleasure to him, the kindness of his heart... ...public good, and allowed himself to be transported to the noisome pools of criminal examinations, where he showed himself alike se- vere and beneficen... ...ttle liked to live in as his wife did. The great lawyer, the clear-sighted criminal judge, whose superiority seemed to his colleagues a form of aberra...

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... furniture for a pau per doll’s house. I can imagine the glee of our Poor Law Commissioners at the notion of these seats having arms and backs; but s... ...irst. The design and object of this Institution is to reclaim the youthful criminal by firm but kind and judicious treatment; to make his prison a pla... ... accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose, an English Court of Law would be to an... ...find it difficult to pick him out from the rest. And if it chanced to be a criminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the doc... ...ould most likely be lounging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal profession, whispering sugges tions in his counsel’s ear, or making ... ... and had no ‘junior,’ I quickly consoled myself with the re flection that law was not quite so expensive an article here, as at home; and that the ab... ...ng a worthy member of society. I am by no means a wholesale admirer of our legal solemnities, many of which impress me as being ex ceedingly ludicrou... ...uppose a man were here for a twelvemonth. I know this is only a prison for criminals who are charged with grave offences, while they are awaiting thei... ...erhaps the richest edifice of modern times. But the bequest is involved in legal disputes, and pending them the work has stopped; so that like many ot...

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...the round outline of a monstrous snuff-box. A snuff-box to a pug nose is a law without exception. A son of the Revolution and a spectator of the Empir... ...o his private principles, he kept them within the civil code; all that the law did not forbid or could not prevent he considered right. He never read ... ...o use an expression of the peasantry) a “monsieur,” had just completed his legal studies and was about to take his degree as licentiate, preparatory t... ... yearly sum of not less than twelve thousand francs during the time of his legal studies. But for that money he had cer- tainly acquired ideas that wo... ...one or the other of three town offices,—that of clerk of the court, or the legal practice of one of the sheriffs, or that of Dionis himself. For this ... ...order that he might devote his private income to his son, who was studying law in Paris under the famous Derville. He bore some resemblance to a retir... ...nal relations that surround him on all sides. Therefore, see what happens! Criminals going to the scaffold, and hav- ing it in their power to carry th... ...who was com- ing towards them on his way home. “When I was a lawyer in the criminal courts,” continued Bongrand, “I naturally had many opportunities t... ... “If I bring trouble on others by becoming rich,” said Ursula, forseeing a criminal trial, “I—” “Remember,” said the justice, interrupting her, “the h...

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...e cleave to life; an instinct, which, as being indispensable to the primal law of self-preservation, is the same in kind, (though different in degree,... ...e delay. By the connivance of the under-sheriff he was cut down within the legal time, and instantly put into a chaise and four; so that, when he reac... ...e honor of giving him the coup de grâce, and finishing the sentence of the law.” This remarkable anecdote, which seemed to imply that all the gentleme... ... seems to imply that the blaze of his genius absolutely dazzled the eye of criminal justice. You all remember, I doubt not, that the 32 instruments w... ...derous doctor; ‘he was dear to me,’ in speaking of the pollinctor. But the law, gentlemen, is stern and harsh: the law will not hear of these tender m... ...summits of social wisdom, have yet failed to learn the first principles of criminal justice; sit ye humbly and with docility at the feet of this girl ... ...irl;” they did. (Hurrah! eighty-one times eighty-one!) This reminds one of criminal indictments on the old model in English courts, where (for fear th... ..., touch a hair of your head he cannot whilst you keep house, and have your legal domicile on the box of the mail. It’s felony to stop the mail; even t... ...ut perhaps these terrors were not the less impressive, because their exact legal limits were imperfectly ascertained. Look at those turnpike gates; wi...

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...ng down upon this little brook—so insignificant in itself, but invested by law with a sanctity so awful, and so dire a consecration. The whole course ... ...ed. The whole elements of the scene were al- most scenically disposed; the law of antagonism having per- haps never been employed with so much effect:... ...rand-uncle, Julius. That adoption made him, to all intents and purposes of law, the son of his great patron; and doubt- less, in a short time, this ad... ...cretion. In the first paroxysms of his rage, on discovering his daughter’s criminal conduct, he made a communication of the whole to the senate. That ... ...ow was that? eagerly demanded the emperor. He was answered— that the state criminal in such cases was first stripped naked, then impaled as it were be... ...of his pub- lic displeasure as State delinquents, or as the most atrocious criminals. T o the children of great treasury defaulters, he re- turned the... ...f Roman life; for such was the sanc- tity of law, that a father created by legal fiction was in all respects treated with the same veneration and affe... ...overruled by the necessities of the public service, in breaking down those legal barriers by which a peculiar dress, furniture, equipage, &c., were ap... ... fabric was the surest pledge of its virtual suppres- sion by means of its legal restriction (which followed inevi- tably) to the use of the imperial ...

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...e restored to the active list, and not otherwise.” In conformity with this law, Captain David G . Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance... ...on could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more preg- nant with happy influence as an example, I cordially r... ...he said United States, it became a military necessity to de- clare martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and ... ...of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now legally authorized to issue them. In my judgment, it will be found impracti... ...ended specie payments, 55 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six and a legal sanction given to the circulation of the irredeem- able notes of one ... ...tates notes, receivable for all government dues except customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except interest on public d... ...operty for the ingredients of treason without a conviction of the supposed criminal, or a personal hearing given him in any proceeding. That we may no... ...id court, with authority to hear, try, and determine all causes, civil and criminal, including causes in law, equity, revenue, and admiralty, and part... ... his being held to answer for capital or otherwise infamous crimes, and in criminal prosecutions his right to a speedy and public trial by an impartia...

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...paid mission- ary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable law- yer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of bet- ter o... ...e than Marmaduke Temple’s right to forbid him,” he said. “But if there’s a law about it at all, though who ever heard of a law that a man shouldn’t ki... ...f a law that a man shouldn’t kill deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A bod... ...Richard, who had his services for a time,* and who, of course, commanded a legal claim to the respect of the young negro. But when any dis- pute betwe... ...o travel different roads. At the end of that period, Dr. Todd attained his legal majority. He then took a jaunt to Boston to purchase medicines, and, ... ...or do I despair of getting an act to make the unlawful felling of timber a criminal offence.” The hunter listened to this detail with breathless atten... ...t in the country can affect my title.” “Doubtless, sir, your title is both legal and equitable,” returned the youth coldly , reining his horse back an... ...two have partly agreed on Squire Jones for the third man.” “ Are there any criminals to be tried?” asked Marmaduke. 299 James Fenimore Cooper “There’... ...t in the hills, and has shot a buck this morning, and that, you know, is a criminal matter in the eyes of Judge T emple.” “Oh! he has, has he?” said E...

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... Sir Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of the... ...ving relatives of two or three individuals), certain it was that the first legally constituted Theatrical Fund owed its origin to one of the brightest... ...naccessible to those meta- 43 Sir Walter Scott physical persons, whom the law of the neighbouring coun- try terms John Doe and Richard Roe. In short,... ... quondam doer had en- 45 Sir Walter Scott sconced himself chin-deep among legal trenches, hornworks, and covered ways; but my two protectors shelled ... ...rather had been freed by my friends, from the brambles and thickets of the law; but, as befell the sheep in the fable, a great part of my fleece was l... ...m- pulse of gaming, alas! I had felt in my time. It is as intense as it is criminal; but it produces excitation and interest, and I can conceive how i... ... pursued by the Furies, and endured the mental torment consequent on great criminal actions. They regarded such unhappy beings as Orestes and OEdipus,... ... to his officers, to obtain a reprieve, at least, if not a pardon, for the criminal, in whom he felt so unusually interested, at once from his docilit... ...red possession of the enclosure, which was the object of competition, by a legal contract with the proprietor, Mr. Ireby; and yet, when accosted with ...

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...tinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Hav... ...on? Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination-piece of machinery, so to speak compounded of the Nebrask... ...ted the amendment. While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress, a law case, involving the question of a negro’s freedom, by rea- son of his o... ...inally made in the case. Before the then next Presi- dential election, the law case came to, and was argued in, the Supreme Court of the United States... ...s not exactly popular sovereignty, but squatter sovereignty. What do those terms mean? What do those terms mean when used now? And vast credit is take... ...hat very court before. It is the first of its kind; it is an astonisher in legal history. It is a new wonder of the world. It is based upon falsehood ... ...slaves upon the ground that a negro cannot make a choice; that they had no legal power to choose, could not perform the condition upon which their fre... ...ized to receive your answer; and, if agree- able to you, to enter into the terms of such arrangement. Y our obedient servant, A. LINCOLN. Mr . DOUGLAS... ...ingency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than Our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. “But all this, to my judgment, f...

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...e days when the people are heirs of all the sycophants of royalty. We make criminals poetic, we commiserate the hangman, we have all but deified the p... ...blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who renders Law inapplicable, and who has made the ownership of land to be a thing that... ..., just as the middle classes have destroyed the nobility. Lifted above the law by its own insignificance, this Robespierre, with one head and twenty m... ...in a hay-loft, and lived on whatever he could pick up. The rapacity of the law in the matter of doors and windows expires “sub dio.” The tow to make t... ...refore added to his other avoca- tions that of witness, or practitioner of legal papers, when- ever the Sieur Brunet came to draw them in the district... ...rape. Moreover, his triple functions of public writer for three townships, legal practitioner for one, and clarionet- player at large, hindered, so he... ..., the sole motive of the masses; they never ask if an 45 Balzac action is legal or immoral, but only if it is profitable. Moral- ity, which is not to... ... of gendarmerie, performing functions that are semi-judicial in drawing up criminal indictments, have much to do with the rural keepers, who are, in f... ...f the park, and you will be safe; the slightest depredation then becomes a criminal offence and is taken to the assizes.” “At a franc and a half the s...

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... of Peleus and T elamon were not unknown to any one. Now Sciron was son-in-law to Cychreus, father-in- law to Aeacus, and grandfather to Peleus and T ... ...stice in their dealings. For they were always their clients’ counselors in law cases, their advocates in courts of justice, in fine their ad- visers a... ...to witness against his client, or a client against his patron, was what no law nor magistrate could enforce. In after times all other duties subsistin... ...he fasces carried before them; and if in their walks they chance to meet a criminal on his way to execution, it saves his life, upon oath made that th... ... com- mand, converted it to a popular office, and did not employ the whole legal power which he held. We must allow, in- deed, that Solon was before P... ...who 183 Plutarch’s Lives came afterwards, and mixed it with pleadings and legal arti- fices, and transformed the practical part of it into a mere art... ...those that were about him, assumed to himself more than became a civil and legal magistrate; among other things, in the pride and haughtiness of his t... ...s dared to lay to the charge of Pericles a monstrous and fabulous piece of criminality with his son’s wife? So very difficult a matter is it to trace ... ...passed upon each of them by majority of votes, as if they had been so many criminals taking their trial: in the course of which it is said that while ...