The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly,... The Southwestern Reporter - Сторінка 1341906Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| 1910 - 1032 стор.
...The most odious and dangerous of all laws would be those depending on the discretion of judges. * * * The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants; it...different in different men; it is casual, and depends on constitution, temper, and passion. At beat it is often caprice. In the worst it is every vice, folly,... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 468 стор.
...means of cure and prevention ". 'Blackstone Comm., iv. 15. 5 Lord Camden said : " The discretion of the judge is the law of tyrants. It is always unknown...different in different men : it is casual, and depends Sir Samuel Romilly's bills, 18o818. Sir James Mackintosh, 1819-23. left a score of victims for execution... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 188 стор.
...discretion, touching which Lord Camden, one of England's greatest constitutional lawyers, said : " The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants; it...it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is every crime, folly, and passion... | |
| Oscar Liebreich - 1913 - 648 стор.
...not ; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.24 "The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants ; it is always unknown ; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, passion. In the best, it is oft times caprice ; in the... | |
| 1914 - 1230 стор.
...the Chancellor's conscience." And to the like effect was the following stricture of Lord Camden : " The discretion of a Judge is the law of tyrants ;...it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper and passk n. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is very vice, folly and passion... | |
| 1914 - 1238 стор.
...unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper and passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is very vice, folly and passion to which human nature is liable." In another sense its exercise from the... | |
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