 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1771 - 506 pages
...was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breafl of any fubfequent judge to alter or vary from, according...fentiments: he being fworn to determine, not according tohis own private judgment, but according to the known laws and cuftoms of the land ; not delegated... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as alfo becaufe the law in that cafe being folemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the bread of any fubfequer.t judge to alter or vary from, according to his private femiments : he being... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...••with every new judge's opinion ; as alfo becaufe the law in that -cafe being folemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the bread of any fubfequent judge to alter or vary from -according to his private fentiments : he being... | |
 | Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - 1802 - 380 pages
...becaufe the law, in that cafe, being folemnly de*. " clared and determined, what before was uncer" tain, and, perhaps, indifferent, is now become a " permanent...of " any fubfequent judge to alter, or vary from, ac" cording to his private fentiments, he being " fworn to determine, not according to his own " private... | |
 | Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - Election law - 1802 - 378 pages
...becaufe the law, in that cafe, being folemnly de" clared and determined, what before was uncer" tain, and, perhaps, indifferent, is now become a " permanent rule, which it is not in the bread of " any fubfequent judge to alter, or vary from, ac" cording to his private fentiments, he being... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as alfo becaufe the law in that cafe being folemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breaft ot any fubfequent judge to sher or vary from, according to his private fentiments : he being fworn... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...waver with every new jiuk -:'s opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 448 pages
...ceedings." — In a subsequent p.irt of the «ime chapter, p. 69, he says, " That the ' common la-,r is now become a permanent " rule, which it is not in the breast of any "Judge to alter or vary from, according ' to his private sentiments, he being sworn '... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments : he being... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Basil Montagu, John MacArthur - Bankruptcy - 1830 - 520 pages
...waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps...now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments; he being... | |
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For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation: as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that... 
