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A letter to ... Robert Peel, on the subject of some of the legal reforms ... - Page 38
by Charles Edward Dodd - 1828 - 80 pages
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De Laudibus Legum Angliae

Sir John Fortescue, Andrew Amos - 1825 - 304 pages
...and other places, to advise with the Serjeants at Law, and other their counsel, about their affairs. The Judges when they have taken their refreshments...rather a life of contemplation than of much action : their time is spent in this manner, free from care and worldly avocations. Nor was it ever found...
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A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and ..., Volume 1

William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...that when they had taken their refreshments, they spent the rest of the day in the study of the law, reading of the holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements at their pleasure ; so : that it seemed rather a life of contemplation than of much action; and that their time was spent...
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Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory, Volume 1

1829 - 528 pages
...other places, to advise with the Serjeants at law, and others, their counsel, about their affairs ; the judges, when they have taken their refreshments,...pleasure.' " It seems rather a life of contemplation than much exertion, and yet at this early period there were usually in the Court of Common Pleas five judges,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 3

1829 - 538 pages
...o'clock, and never in the afternoon. After Court, they took some refreshment, and spent, says Fortescue, " the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading the Holy Scriptures, and other innocent 'amusements at their pleasure. 'Twas a life rather of contemplation...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 42

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 564 pages
...venerable) ought to be compensated from the public purse : — ' You are to know further,' says Fortescue, ' that the judges of England do not sit in the king's...rather a life of contemplation than of much action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting picture of judicial vacation now in any degree apply;...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 42

1830 - 562 pages
...venerable) ought to be compensated from the public purse : — ' You are to know further,' says Fortescue, ' that the judges of England do not sit in the king's...— it seems rather a life of contemplation than of mucti action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting picture of judicial vacation now in...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 42

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 574 pages
...venerable) ought to be compensated from the public purse : — ' You are to know further,' says Fortescue, ' that the judges of England do not sit in the king's...other innocent amusements at their pleasure — it feems rather a life of contemplation than of much action.' To one court, and one only, can this interesting...
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The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Volume 3

1832 - 496 pages
...Pervise,* and other places, to advise with the serjeants^t-law and other their counsel about their affairs. The judges, when they have taken their refreshments,...rather a life of contemplation than of much action. Their time is spent in this manner, free from care and worldly avocations. Nor was it ever found that...
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The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of ...

Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pages
...that, when they had taken their refreshments, they spent the rest of the day in the study of the law, reading of the Holy Scriptures, and other innocent amusements, at their pleasure ; so that it seemed rather a life of contemplation than of much action ; and that their time was spent...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 15

1840 - 824 pages
...and other their counsel, about their affairs. The judges, when they have taken their refreshment?, spend the rest of the day in the study of the laws, reading of the Holy Scriptures, ami other innocent amusements at their pleasure. It seems rather a life of contemplation than of much...
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