 that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity,' did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street in a fit.  The Federal Reporter - Page 3371922Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...deviation from the received sense of them becomes necessary. Therefore, the law mentioned by Puffendorf, that " whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held not to extend to a surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1845 - 434 pages
...cases by way of illustration. Blackstone tells us that " the Bolognian law, mentioned by Puffendorf, which enacted ' that whoever drew blood in, the streets should be punished with the utmost severity' was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...provisions, it was held, that the restraint wasintended to be laid on such provisions only. So where a law enacted that whoever drew blood in the streets, should be punished with the utmost severity, it was held not to extend to the Surgeon who opened the vein of a person who fell down in the street... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 574 pages
...ANDREWS. DRAWING BLOOD IN THE STREETS. — Blackstone, in his ' Commentaries,' alluding to a Bolognian law, which enacted that whoever drew blood in the...streets should be punished with the utmost severity, says that after long debate it was held not to apply to a surgeon who opened the vein of a person who... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...effects. Statutes certainly are not always, nor ought they to be, construed literally. The Bolognian law, which enacted " that whoever drew blood in the...streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held, after long debate, not to extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell... | |
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 pages
...distinctions on the subject of what is equitable. 11 Therefore the Bolognian law, mentioned by Puffendorf, which enacted, " that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened the rein of a person that fell... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...blood in the street» should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. *5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1962 - 964 pages
...statement : The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf , that the Bolognian law which enacted, "that whoever drew blood in the...the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1st Edward II, which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...its letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bologuian law which enacted, " that whoever drew blood in the...the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1st Edward II, which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...approves the judgment mentioned by Pufl'endorf, that the Bolognian law which enacted, " that whoever dre\V blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost...vein of a person that fell down in the street in a tit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, cited by Plowdeu, that the statute of 1st Edward II,... | |
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