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... 1886. The book was a commercial success for its author, and its illustrations by Reginal Birch set fashion trends. Little Lord Fauntleroy also set a precedent in copyright law in 1888 when its author won a lawsuit over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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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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...isfactory. Such a system of Gul. support as advocated above is not without precedent at Williams. The levy- ing of a class ta.x after an aijjjeal, was... ...lec- tions not conducted in accord with the code of rules is not with- out precedent, at least three im- portant class elections in the past year havi... ...meet in the Hpirit that ought to murk intercollegiate contfiBte. We have a precedent for auuh wait- ing. After the Kane trouble with AmherHt in H)UO, ... ..., it was frankly hoped that the other olnsses would follow and establish a precedent for a series of four winter college gatherings. The line of least...

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... necessities of the civil war, so that they might not pass into history as precedents for similar acts in time of peace. It is an unquestionable fact ... ... followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dan- gerous precedents than during the war itself. Thus it may truly be said of him not... ...ession has reached its highest perfection, and centu- ries of learning and precedent are involved in the equip- ment of a lawyer. Dr. Holmes, when ask...

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... the supposition, the very case put, is base- less, and countenanced by no precedent. Yet, under this pre- vious difficulty, and with regard to a lite... ...er, who held up the rupture between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia as a precedent applying to all possible connections of princes and literati, Goe...

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...d bold implies singular intellectual intrepidity. He had neither model nor precedent. The vastness and novelty of the undertaking increase admiration ... ... not a statesman condescended to attend to it; and a legislation without a precedent was produced offhand *Ibid., p. 90. 61 Tocqueville by the imagin... ... of general notions, and is more completely disengaged from the routine of precedent and the egotism of local prejudice; its designs are conceived wit... ... the two countries. The English and the Americans have retained the law of precedents; that is to say, they continue to found their legal opinions and... ...he French advocate inquires what should have been done; the former produce precedents, the latter rea- sons. A French observer is surprised to hear ho... ...an be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. The indispensable want of legal assistance which is felt in Eng... ...till perpetually changing, its aspect; in which every act of tyranny has a precedent, and every crime an example; in which there is nothing so old tha... ...l aware of the influence which the nature of a country and its politi- cal precedents exercise upon a constitution; and I should re- gard it as a grea... ...hat their country is unlike any other, and that its situation is without a precedent in the world. America is a land of wonders, in which everything i...

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...in the diplomatic. We English, haters and revilers of ourselves beyond all precedent, disparagers of our own eminent advantages beyond all sufferance ... ...rgument which we have ourselves derived from the analogy of all scriptural precedents. But the case is far otherwise as concerns the second prob- lem,... ...y, that of sceptical slights shown to the Oracle, there are some memorable precedents on record. Everybody knows the ridiculous stratagem of Crœsus, t... ...ad the audacity to found a colony without seeking an oracular sanction, no precedent was established; though the journey to Delphi must often have bee... ...bute to the Sultan. So favored, their commerce had flourished be- yond all precedent. And latterly, when the vast extension of European warfare had cr...

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... entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister. There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual w... ...m and water around, and withdraw in confusion. Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strang... ...h out of him, with a ‘First, I will beg you, sir, to inform the House what Precedent we have for the course into which the honourable gentleman would ... ... asking the honourable gentleman to favour him with his own version of the Precedent; sometimes telling the honourable gentleman that he (William Barn... ...hat he (William Barnacle) 399 Little Dorrit – Book One would search for a Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spo... ...hing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no Precedent. But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the... ...f events that the wretched honourable gentleman could pos- sibly produce a Precedent for this—William Barnacle would nevertheless thank the honourable... ...ith him upon that issue, and would tell him to his teeth that there Was NO Precedent for this. It might perhaps have been objected that the William Ba... ...en made, or, if made in a rash mistake, would have remained blank mud. But Precedent and Precipitate to- gether frightened all objection out of most p...

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... entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister. There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual w... ...m and water around, and withdraw in confusion. Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strang... ...h out of him, with a ‘First, I will beg you, sir, to inform the House what Precedent we have for the course into which the honourable gentleman would ... ... asking the honourable gentleman to favour him with his own version of the Precedent; sometimes telling the honourable gentleman that he (William Barn... ...gentleman that he (William Barnacle) 399 Little Dorrit would search for a Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spo... ...hing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no Precedent. But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the... ...f events that the wretched honourable gentleman could pos- sibly produce a Precedent for this—William Barnacle would nevertheless thank the honourable... ...ith him upon that issue, and would tell him to his teeth that there Was NO Precedent for this. It might perhaps have been objected that the William Ba... ...en made, or, if made in a rash mistake, would have remained blank mud. But Precedent and Precipitate to- gether frightened all objection out of most p...

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...ed to take to abuse, to fill up the time. Now they have such a num- ber of precedents, they have no occasion for abuse.’ Johnson. ‘Nay, Sir, they had ... ...more law 232 Boswell’s Life of Johnson long ago than they have now. As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more p...

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...tes— as each State takes whatever laws it may think fit to adopt. Even the precedents of our courts are held as pre- cedents in the American courts, u...

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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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...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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... 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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...orce it came home to him that he had a week before definitely established a precedent. He did her at least that justice—it was a kind of justice he was... ...lest of pillows, just as her atten tion was a spreading canopy from which precedent and reminiscence dropped as thickly as parted curtains—if she had... ...se revolving subordinate presences that float in the wake of greatness. The precedent was therefore established and the group normally constituted. Mrs... ...r, he had even exceedingly enjoyed her, before this; but there had been no precedent for that character of a proved necessity to him which she was rap... ...d heroine—only with a part to play for which she knew exactly no inspiring precedent. She knew but that all the while—all the while of her sitting the...

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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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...d the president. FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 405 • There are precedents for surrendering authority for joint planning while preserving a... ... FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 415 • The post-9/11 Afghanistan precedent of using joint CIA-military teams for covert and clandestine oper...

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...t form of sentimental decentralization was still in its early stages, and, precedents being few, and the desire to set an example contagious, the matt...

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... for foreign affairs to fall in love on his behalf, had, contrary to every precedent of policy and diplomacy, al ready fallen in love on his own acco...

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...nd sacred matters to electioneering tactics. However this may be, the fine precedent was undoubtedly set in a Verbosity election: and it is certain th...

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...t was the first fast ever thought of in the province, the secre tary had no precedent from which to draw the proclama tion. My education in New Engl...

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...eset by the bravoes of his enemy and slain. My lord of Burgundy set an ill precedent in this deed, as he found some years after on the bridge of Monte...