This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and applied by English courts for centuries before the founding of the American colonies. To a certain extent these principles of the common law have been formally stated in acts of parliament or congress or State legislatures. Many of them, however, are to be found, not in such acts of the law making body, but in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and applied by English courts for centuries before the founding of the American colonies. To a certain extent these principles of the common law have been formally stated in acts of parliament or congress or State legislatures. Many of them, however, are to be found, not in such acts of the law making body, but in the reported decisions of the courts. These decisions, in turn, have been constantly interpreting and applying to new conditions precedents set by many generations of judges on both sides of the Atlantic. The courts are bound also by acts of the law-making statute body. Although this statute law often merely restates lawthe principles of the common law, it has other and more important purposes. Since the judges are expected to apply, not the law as it ought to be, but the law as it is, the law-making body must make such changes and additions as are required to meet the needs of different times and places. In Illinois this statute law includes acts of Congress and acts of the General Assembly. Even the Federal and State constitutions may be included as fundamental statutes enacted by the highest law-making authority, the people themselves. Besides following the rules of the common and the Equity, statute law, the courts of Illinois are also governed in certain cases by what are known as the rules of "equity." To understand what is meant by "equity" in distinction from "law" we must again go far back into English history. It was then found that the rules of the common law as applied by the ordinary courts were sometimes too narrow, or too hard and fast, to give justice. In such cases, men could go to a special court which came to be known as the High Court of Chancery, because it was presided over by the Lord Chancellor...
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 51/2x71/2. 296 pages before publishers ad section for the other Handbooks of American Government series (of which this title is a part). A fold-out map of Illinois and a fold-out ballot of the 1896 election (Bryan and McKinley). Ex-lib copy, but no exterior markings or interior bookplate or pockets-only a stamp on title page. Exterior spine is very slightly sunfaded. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean. Statistical tables for periods up to 1900 census.