Memoir of the Life of Henry-Francis D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France: And of His Ordonnances for Consolidating and Amending Certain Portions of the French Law; and An Historical and Literary Account of the Roman and Canon LawJ. Murray, 1830 - 207 pagine |
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Pagina 194 - At the dawn of the Reformation, in the reign of king Henry VIII., it was enacted in parliament ° that a review should be had of the canon law ; and, till such review should be made, all canons, constitutions, ordinances, and synodals provincial, being then already made, and not repugnant to the law of the land or the king's prerogative, should still be used and executed. And, as no such review has yet been perfected, upon this statute now depends the authority of the canon law in England.
Pagina 186 - Roman and the canon law, in an appendix to his life of the Chancellor D'Aguesseau, does not hesitate to say, " To the compilations of Isidore and Gratian, one of the greatest misfortunes of the Church, the claim of the Popes to temporal power by divine right, may, in some measure, be attributed. That a claim so unfounded and so impious, so detrimental to religion, and so hostile to the peace of the world, should have been made, is strange — stranger yet is the success it met with.
Pagina 83 - ... have opportunities of realizing it, and be allured to its realization by the superior stability of landed property, and the importance which the ownership of it confers. This, it is known, has been effected by the establishment of a general rule, that the absolute ownership of property may be suspended from vesting in any one during the life of a person in being at the time of the creation of the entail, and a further period of twenty-one years, to be computed from his decease ; but that, at...
Pagina 194 - The legatine constitutions were ecclesiastical laws, enacted in national synods held under the cardinals Otho and Othobon, legates from pope Gregory IX. and pope Clement IV. in the reign of king Henry III., about the years 1220 and 1268.
Pagina 69 - My child,' said the Chancellor, ' when you shall have read what I have read, seen what I have seen, and heard what I have heard, you will feel, that if on any subject you know much, there may be also much that you do not know, and that something even of what you know may not at the moment be in your recollection. You will then, too, be sensible of the mischievous and often ruinous consequences of even a small error in a decision...
Pagina 60 - I dare not advise to cast the law into a new mould. The work, which I propound, tendeth to pruning and grafting the law, and not to ploughing up and planting it again; for such a remove I should hold indeed for a perilous innovation.
Pagina 23 - It is every wheresaid, that the knowledge which the members of it possessed of the law, was at once extensive and profound, and that they were equally conversant in its theory and its practice; that they respected their profession, and were aware of the importance of a proper discharge of their duties; and that, while their undeviating attention and gravity convinced the lowest class of subjects that justice would be fully and impartially administered to them, they equally intimated to persons in...
Pagina 105 - Rutuli, and ./Equi; it was afterwards extended to the Osci, Ausones, and Volsci: the difference between the right of the city and the right of Latium is not precisely ascertained: .the principal privilege of the Latins seems to have" been, the use of their own laws, and their not being subject to the edicts of the Praetor; and that they had occasional access to the freedom of Rome, and a participation in her sacred rites.
Pagina 149 - Formerly they were shewn only by torch light, in the presence of two magistrates, and two Cistercian monks, with their heads uncovered. They have been successively collated by Politian, Bolognini, and Antonius Augustinus; an exact copy of them was published, in 1553, by Franciscus Taurellus; for its accuracy and beauty, this edition ranks high among the ornaments of the press: it should be accompanied...
Pagina 26 - Chancellor de 1'Hospital, the President de Thou, Pasquier, Loisel, the Pithous, and many other ornaments of the magistracy. These days are passed ; and they are passed because the dissipation of Paris is extreme. Is a young man of family now destined for the law ? Before he attains his sixteenth year, a charge is obtained for him, and he sports a chariot.