 It is the province of the statesman, and not the lawyer, to discuss, and of the legislature to determine, what is the best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments.  Law Notes - Page 601919Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 1096 pages
...province of the statesman and not the lawyer to discuss, and of the legislature to determine, what is the best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. It is the province of the Judge to expound the law only — the written from the statute,... | |
 | William Wait - Civil procedure - 1872 - 950 pages
...decisions, for materials to supply the defect. In the creation or establishment of laws, it is the province of the legislature to determine what is best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. The province of the judge is to expound the law, instead of making it. The written law... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...decisions, for materials to supply the defect. In the creation or establishment of laws, it is the province (Z) This may be one reason why the corpo- (n) 1 Hawk. PC 141. ration of London has, since the res enactments. The province of the judge ia to expound the law, instead of making it. The written law... | |
 | Straits Settlements. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1885 - 886 pages
...observed in Egerton v. Broicrdaw, 4 HLC 123, "it is the province of the statesmen and not the lawyer, to " discuss, and of the Legislature to determine,..." the public good and to provide for it by proper enactments. It " is the province of the judge to expound the law only : the writ" ten from the Statutes... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1154 pages
...fruits of the corporate recovery to the individuals resident in Germany, who are alien enemies. But courts are not empowered to declare grounds of public...to prohibit everything which it believes otherwise. See opinion of Lord Halsbury in Jansen's case, AC 496. The motion to restrain the prosecution of these... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 pages
...province of the statesman and not the lawyer to discuss, and of the legislature to determine, what is the best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. It is the province of the judge to expound the law only — the written from the statutes;... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1898 - 796 pages
...the statesman, and not of the lawyer, to discuss, and of the legislature to determine, what is the best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. It is the province of the judge to expound the law only; the written from the statute,... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1901 - 822 pages
...province of the statesman and not the lawyer to discuss, and of the Legislature to determine, what is the best for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. It is the province of the Judge to expound the law only — the written from the statute,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Philip Loring Spooner, Abram Daniel Smith, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 806 pages
...pressed the same idea substantially thus : 'It is the province of the statesman and not of the lawyer to discuss, and of the legislature to determine what...for the public good, and to provide for it by proper enactments. It is the province of the judge to expound the law, to declare public policy as he finds... | |
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