 | Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 498 pages
...determine what is wanted in this part of our constitution. , LAWS. So much of the common law of England as is not repugnant to the constitution^ or to any act of the legislature, is adopted as law within this state : And such statute laws^ and parts of laws of the kingdom of England... | |
 | Vermont - Land grants - 1823 - 570 pages
...their real estates by English tenures. Be it enacted, &c. that so much of the common law of England, as is not repugnant to the constitution or to any act of the legislature of this State, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, and continue to be, law within this State. And whereas, the... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 516 pages
...for producing uniformity of decisions in the same." And in the body of the act it is declared, " that so much of the common law of England as is applicable...constitution, or to any act of the legislature, of this state, be, and hereby is, adopted law, and all courts are to take notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly."... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 618 pages
...The common law is adopted by our statute, so far, and so far only, as the same is applicable to our local situation and circumstances, and is not repugnant...constitution, or to any act of the legislature, of this state. Whether applicable, or not, must necessarily be a question of judicial decision : and this is, probably,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 534 pages
...propriety be exercised here. state By the act passed in 1797, Comp. stat. 57, it is enacted, "that Kuyc->. so much of the common law of England as is applicable...the constitution or to any act of the legislature, &.c., be and hereby is adopted law in this state." Now if this common law power is repugnant to the... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - Judges - 1846 - 422 pages
...English tenures." By the first section it is enacted, " That so much of the common law of England as is not repugnant to the constitution, or to any act of the legislature of this state, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, and continue to be, law within this state." By the common... | |
 | Vermont - Law - 1851 - 838 pages
...Citizens of the United States, entitled to priv-1 3. Imprisonment, contrary to law, prohibited. SECTION 1. So much of the common law of England, as is applicable...circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws of this state, shall be deemed and considered law in this state, and all courts are to take notice... | |
 | Benjamin Homer Hall - 1858 - 832 pages
...statute laws of England, so far as they were applicable to a republican form of government, and were " not repugnant to the constitution, or to any act of the Legislature " of Vermont, were adopted as the laws of the state. Corporal punishment, though at first much employed... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Common law - 1871 - 154 pages
...e. 1-1 adopting the " the common law of England, as is not repugnant to commou law of L Euglaud. " the Constitution, or to any act of the Legislature of " this State, be, and is hereby adopted, and shall be, " and continue to be, law within this State." By the common... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1164 pages
...common law of this state. By this assumption, the fact is Ignored that this state has only adopted so much of the common law of England as is applicable...circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws of Vermont, and that such adoption was subsequent to the adoption of the constitution of 1777.... | |
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so much of the common law of England as is applicable to the local situation and circumstances, and is not repugnant to the constitution or laws, shall be law in this State. 
