 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...or common law, and the evidence by which its existence is duly ascertained. The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...most terse, comprehensive, and satisfactory of any which we have seen : — " The Common Law includes, those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...or common law, and the evidence by which its existence is duly ascertained. The common law includes those principles, usages and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...United States than in England. And Chancellor Kent well defines the common law, as including all " those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...the sense most appropriate is the one stated by Chancellor Kent; thus, — "The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...those principles, usages atad rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...positive declaration of the will of the legislature. A great proportion of the rules and maxims, which, constitute the immense code of the common law, grew... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Law - 1868 - 488 pages
...those principles, usagcs, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...positive declaration of the will of the legislature." 4 According to this definition, it is seen, the words common law signify, with us, both something more... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1809 - 370 pages
...those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...positive declaration of the will of the legislature. It grew into use among our English ancestry by gradual adoption ; receiving from time to time the sanction... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...reexamined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law. (89) person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon...positive declaration of the will of the Legislature. It grew into use among our English ancestry by gradual adoption ; receiving from time to time the sanction... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 350 pages
...the United States than according to the rules of the common law. 89. § 1. The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration... | |
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The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature. 
