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...ic division. This was a new challenge for all of us, since there were no precedents for me to follow. Yet there are no rules for leaping I had a se...

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... As David Hume observed, it is not enough for a miracle to run contra to immutable precedent; it must also evidently serve as an expression of divi... ... distributed by subscription only to dozens of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 studied in business schools and law faculties...

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...the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries were influential largely because they were in fact re...

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...tain immortality in this manner, and this is what makes him a hero without precedent in the Greek world. He is a hero unequalled by any other hero i...

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...le legal solution, Luther’s suggestion of a secret marriage was not without precedent; common law in parts of Westphalia and Lower Saxony, for examp... ...e the lesser of two evils insofar as it was not without divinely sanctioned precedent in the Old Testament intends never to return. I certainly can...

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...rbable good-humor, was equally furious. The friction began as follows. The precedents for the conduct of the Committee were to be found in the proceed... ...was 16 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet a resolution to adhere strictly to precedent, the Com- mittee being then unaware that the precedents were on m... ...ed before the Committee, and proposed to read my statement “ac- cording to precedent,” the Committee was visibly taken aback. The Chairman was bound b... ... at to allow me to read my state- ment, since that course was according to precedent; but as this was exactly what the decision was meant to prevent, ...

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...ge that seldom lapseth to excess. To consider them apart, we have not many precedents of her liberality, nor any large donatives to particular men, my... ... did much disturb and mislead her judgment; and the more for that it was a precedent taken out of her own pattern. For as the Queen, by way of divisio... ...he best of the Irish army, counting the defeat of Blackwater, with all the precedent expenses, as it stood from my Lord of Essex’s undertaking of the ...

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... a suspicious incident, quite unheard of. Unheard of, above all; there is no precedent for it, and it is far from creditable … . And so discretion abo... ...ee. One doesn’t know what to think of it, and the worst of it is there is no precedent. If we had a precedent we might have something to go by. But as... ... That would be another novelty and a dan gerous one; and again, there is no precedent for it. If we had any sort of precedent for it, then, to my thi...

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.... “Y es!” replied the slave in an intrepid tone. Then, without heeding the precedent or the pecuniary loss, Hamilcar said to the serving-men: “Away wi... ...eir former allies. This abandonment of the Punic cause was a counsel and a precedent. Hopes of deliverance revived. Populations hith- erto uncertain h... ...on, and all were now at his mercy. He must accordingly be fully gratified. Precedents showed that in this way the scourge would be made to disappear. ...

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...ce its course of action. By its cumulative action in shaping the usage and precedents of any such body, this shrinking from an imputation of unseemly ... ...e learned class in all primitive communities are great sticklers for form, precedent, gradations of rank, ritual, ceremonial vestments, and learned pa...

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...matic presents, which were required to be precisely the same as in the old precedents, consisted commonly of the staple wares of the city offering the... ... deserved such a distinction, which, indeed, was not conformable to law or precedent. Consequently, when his suit was rejected, he fell into ill humor...

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... NICOLO GINI, Chancellor of Florence. Attending the precedent relation, it is allowed that this present work of Davanzati may... ...to bind books to their good behaviour. And how it got the upper hand of your precedent Order so well constituted before, if we may believe those men w...

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... but not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” “There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” “It’s impossible,” replied anothe...

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... and originality: they also are bewildered and terrified in the absence of precedents and precepts and commandments; but modern Democracy al- lows the...

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...h many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional te... ... If a minority in such case will secede rather than acqui esce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of thei... ...particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a ... ...rom this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent. The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land—th... ... can be protected by equitable injunction is utterly with out foundation in precedent or reason. The proposition is usually linked with one to make t...

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... throne Wherefrom Etocles, my younger brother, Ousted me, not by weight of precedent, Nor by the last arbitrament of war, But by his popular acts; and...

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... have not given countenance to it in any of my plays. In this I follow the precedent of the ancient myths, which represent the hero as vanquishing his...

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...ever been Walden 9 measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hithe...

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.... And, if so largely God hath doled his grace, That, clean beside all modern precedent, He wills me to behold his kingly state, From me conceal not wh...

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...ividual tendencies, which at present are still subdued by the influence of precedent and example: and it will require generations more, be fore their...

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... had engraven upon their minds. 23. The argument of assenting on first hearing, is upon a false supposition of no precedent teaching. There is, I fea... ...V Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together 1. Both capable of greater and less. Though we have in the precedent chapters dwelt pretty lon... ...rry not all the happiness and misery that depend on them along with them in their present performance, but are the precedent causes of good and evil, ...

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...qualified.” “I’ll do what I can. But, Margaret, this mustn’t be taken as a precedent.” “No, of course—of course—” “I can’t fit in your proteges every ...

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...ret of always doing the right thing at the right moment, even when defying precedent. Sometimes she blamed the dulness of the people she met for her s...

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...ctation Of future glory, which is the effect Of grace divine and merit precedent. From many stars this light comes unto me; But he instilled it ...

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.... And, if so largely God hath doled his grace, That, clean beside all modern precedent, He wills me to behold his kingly state, From me conceal not wh...

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...experiment and not a very rewarding one at that. It is often said that there is no precedent to the extant fortean transition from totalitarian com... ...neutered. The threat inherent in them must be eradicated. This is a dangerous moral precedent. All kinds of people threaten our well-being: unsettli... ...ss chastises him not for having done what he did – in this he has many illustrious precedents. No, he is accused of being indiscreet, of failing to... ...ring or outsourcing deals. Acquire a wall of "defensive" laws, regulations, court precedents, and political support to deny competitors unfettered... ... of a unilateral transfer or of a bilateral exchange of population. There are many precedents - Germans in the Ukraine and in Czechoslovakia, Turks... ...cessible to all – their interpretation would not have been. In many legal systems, precedents and court decisions are an integral part of the law. ... ...n is forgotten and public attention reverts to fresher issues. Again, consider the precedent of the public airwaves. A new Communications Act was l... ...ative response. Genetic engineering unchecked can lead to genetic annihilation. The precedent of nuclear weapons is encouraging - people succeeded i... ...e they likely to be applied (for instance, through the courts, their decisions and precedents). More importantly, technology enhances the efficacy ...

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...culture flourishes. A new event in culture does not differ much from the precedents - culture even repeats, comparatively to the science's exponent...

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...y infringer, just as Sony could not be liable for the Betamax. Supreme Court precedent covers this case. The Ninth Circuit is bound by that precedent.... ...right applied a bright-line test in a sampling case, we have not cited it as precedent for several reasons. First, it is a district court opinion and ... ...al reasons. First, it is a district court opinion and as such has no binding precedential value. Second, although it appears to have in- volved claims... ...The report honestly described the directive as “a Community creation with no precedent in any international convention.” Using a methodology similar t... ... operation of the mo- nopoly, will be overbalanced by the evil effect of the precedent; and it being not im- possible that the monopoly itself in its ... ...ty excited against the Inclosure Acts and their authors...was almost without precedent: though fifty years and more have passed, the subject is still a...

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...nderent ad terram T, zquarentur inter fe. Sed angu.li illi (per ea qug in precedent-e propofjrione expofuimus) ;Tunt motus no& dorum, quo tempore hm... ...at ambe in d.eterminanda latitudine lunar negligi pofint. CuroC. Ex hat & precedente propofitione liquet quod nodi in fy- zygiis fuis quiefcunt, in ...

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...s are, in the main, arbitrary; they are supported neither by principle nor precedent. It has indeed happened, that governments of this kind have gener... ... no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no govern- ment established of which an ... ...o apology for having dwelt so long on the con- templation of these federal precedents. Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are ... ...rstandings. But however little this objection may be countenanced, even by precedents among ourselves, it may be satisfactory to take a nearer view of... ...in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country, and forms a precedent for other breaches where the same plea of necessity does not exis... ... plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpa- tions of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnec- essary and multiplied repetitions. I... ... spect, is immenmorial, and was only disputed, “contrary to all reason and precedent,’’ as Blackstone vol. i., page 262, ex- presses it, by the Long P... ... is so evident in itself, and it is, at the same time, so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in general, that little need be said ... ...es-General of the Netherlands, did not an example at home render for- eign precedents unnecessary. To require a fixed proportion of the whole body wou...

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...of timber—but this time going outward—as our capital emerges from this un- precedented inundation of loyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the mo... ... money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope for invention and scient... ...s and display themselves wise, capable and heroic— beyond any aristocratic precedent. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the ... ...nd perhaps con- vey my conviction that our present Labour troubles are un- precedented, and that they mean the end of an epoch. The supply of good-tem... ... of practical scientific work; and it was natural he should turn to it for precedents in sociological research. His mind was invaded by the idea of cl... ...assion, their very silences shape a Utopia. Why should they not follow the precedent of Aristotle, and accept Utopias as material? There used to be in... ...moments of reflection will suffice to demonstrate that. This is beyond any precedent an age of change, change in the appliances of life, in the averag... ... and aimless expenditure, of a class irresponsible and wasteful beyond all precedent. One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton Sinclai... ...xpenditure; in the end they mean possibilities of de- struction beyond all precedent. Such things as the _Zeppe- lin_ and the _Ville de Paris_ are onl...

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...nception so plausible at the first glance, and for which there are so many precedents in history, might perhaps, in the general chaos of political opi... ...ocated not only seems the best in itself, but is that for which historical precedent and actual brilliant success can to the greatest extent be pleade... ...kes it more difficult to resist; each of these, in suc cession, becomes a precedent for more, until the standard of proficiency sinks gradually to so...

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...Napoleon, who acts on his own responsibility in defi- ance of professional precedents or orders from Paris. Even when the Austrians win a battle, all ...

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...tional- ity,[147] our shyness, laziness, and stinginess, our de- mands for precedent and permission, for guarantee and surety, our small suspicions, t... ...the eyes of the authorities. The experiences of these have been treated as precedents, and a codified system of mys- [247] A. Schmolders: Essai sur le...

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... with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent and make them the standard of their prerogative—as if what had be... ...hief and op pression has light only on some few, but in such cases as the precedent and consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in ...

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...er tears that there was nothing to pre- vent her marrying, that there were precedents (there were up to that time very few, but she mentioned Napoleon...

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...an that the sa- cred majesty of kings should be outraged by so dangerous a precedent. But of what avail was the voice of prudence against the seductiv... ...s mandate of conversion. The example of the court had, however, afforded a precedent to the Roman Catholics of the empire, and seemed to justify every... ...e a plan was early formed for dividing the conquered provinces, (after the precedent of the barbarian hordes who overran the German empire,) as a comm...

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...fashion of a small and intensely snobbish class is negligible as a general precedent. In any case, men and women in the East do not marry anyone they ...

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... received in any sort of pros- ecution. It is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and is quite foreign to the spirit of our age. Civilization is l...

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...f the Irish people. But the idea was new and strange; there was no English precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English poli...

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...but not a distinction,” said the diplomatist— “a gift, rather.” “There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” “It’s impossible,” replied anothe... ... her tears that there was nothing to prevent her marrying, that there were precedents (there were up to that time very few, but she mentioned Napo- le...

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...us, we took vengeance on them, and we drowned them all. And we made them a precedent and instance of divine judg- ments to those who came after them. ...