 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 páginas
...Edward the First, styled the English Justinian ? — 425-427. In his time the law received so sudden a perfection, that Sir Matthew Hale does not scruple...than in all the ages since that time put together. The principal regulations established by this king, may be reduced under the following general heads... | |
 | Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - 1897 - 282 páginas
...who hath justly been styled our English Justinian. For in his time the law did receive so sudden a perfection, that Sir Matthew Hale does not scruple...than in all the ages since that time put together. The halls of Westminster, built by William Rufus on such solid foundations more than a century before,... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - 1897 - 838 páginas
...Acts of Edward I. Edward I has justly been styled our English Justinian. Sir Matthew Hale asserts, that more was done in the first thirteen years of his reign to establish the distributive justice of the kingdom, than in all the ages since that time. 1. He confirmed... | |
 | Albert Thomas Carter - 1899 - 238 páginas
...remained to the year 1875. Of Edward I Blackstone says, ' in his time the law did receive so sudden a perfection that Sir Matthew Hale does not scruple...than in all the ages since that time put together ' ; and Sir James Mackintosh says that ' from the reign of Edward I we possess the Year Books, notes... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Gatty - 1900 - 576 páginas
...been styled the Justinian of England, did so much to reform the Courts, that Sir Matthew Hale says, " that more was done in the first thirteen years of...than in all the ages since that time put together." We may consider that the present clock tower at Westminster, from which " Big Ben " gives forth his... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1902 - 630 páginas
...time the law did receive so sudden a perfection, that Sir Matthew Hale does not scruple to aflirm(») that more was done in the first thirteen years of...may be reduced under the following general heads: — i. He established, confirmed, and settled the great charter and charter of forests. 2. He gave... | |
 | Edwin Johnson, Edward Augustus Petherick - 1904 - 648 páginas
...The English in her perfection like a statue from the hand JuatinUn. of Phidias. Most marvellous ! for Sir Matthew Hale does not scruple to affirm that more...was done in the first thirteen years of his reign in the interests of distributive justice than in all the ages since his time. To enumerate the just... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - 1911 - 584 páginas
...writing late in the seventeenth century, says that more was done in the first thirteen years of that reign to settle and establish the distributive justice...than in all the ages since that time put together. We can hardly say so much as this ; still we may say that the legislative activity of those thirteen... | |
 | Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach - 1914 - 732 páginas
...Britton so boldly claimed the royal backing. other. Sir Mathew Hale in his History of the Common Law did not scruple to affirm that more was done in the first thirteen years of Edward's reign to settle and establish the distributive justice of the Kingdom, than in all the ages... | |
 | 1915 - 1248 páginas
...during the Commonwealth, in speaking of it, says: "More was done in the first thirteen years of that reign, to settle and establish the distributive Justice...than in all the ages since that time put together." Edward I. re-organised the Aula Regis, which was established by William the Conqueror, in his palace... | |
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For in his time the law did receive so sudden a perfection, that sir Matthew Hale does not scruple to affirm ', that more was done in the first thirteen years of his reign to settle and establish the distributive justice of the kingdom, than in all the... 
