 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 pages
...thofe laws were at preient merely cral, or communicated from the former ages to the prefent folely by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly ovcrfprcad the whole wcftern world, all laws were entirely traditional ; for this plain reafon, becaufe... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 518 pages
...overfpread the whole weftern world, all laws were entirely traditional ; for this plain reafon, becaufe the nations among which they prevailed had but little idea of writing. Thus the Britifh as well as the Gallic druids committed all their laws as well as learning to memory*... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1793 - 686 pages
...thofe laws were at prcfent merely araf, or communicated from the former ages to the prcfent folcly by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly overfpread the whole wcftern world, all laws were entirely traditional, for this plain reafon, becaufe... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 pages
...thofe laws were at prefent merely oral, or communicated fiom the former ages to the prefent folely by word of mouth. It is true indeed, that in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly ovcrfprcad the whole wedern world, all laws were entirely traditional ; for this plain reafon, that... | |
 | William Herbert - 1804 - 454 pages
...be understood as if all those law* were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former agei to the present solely by word of mouth. It is true...were entirely traditional, for this plain reason, that the nations among which they prevailed had but little idea of writing. Thus the British as well... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...law leges non scrifitaei I would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oro/, or communicated from the former ages to the present...ignorance of letters which formerly overspread the tvhole western world, all laws were entirely traditional, for this plain reason, because the nations... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1810 - 548 pages
...these parts of the law, leges non scriptce, we would not be under, stood as if all those laws were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former...were entirely traditional ; for this plain reason, that (ha nations among which they prevailed, had but little idea of writing. Thus' the British as well... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 448 pages
...those laws were "nat present merely oral, or commnnicated " from the former ages by word of mouth 14 It is true, indeed, that in the profound " ignorance of letters which formerly ovcr" spread the whole western world, all laws " were entirely traditional, for this plain " reason,... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...no{ written, is not at this time purely oral, or communicated from former ages to the prefent folcly by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance of letters which formerly overfpread the whole weftern world, all laws were entiriiy traditional, becaufe the nations, among... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...letters which for-merly overfpread the whole weftern world, all laws were entirely traditional, becaufe the nations, among which they prevailed, had but little idea of writing. But, with us, at prefent, the monuments and evidences of our legal cuftoms are contained in the records... | |
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When I call these parts of our law leges non scriptce, 1 would not be understood as if all those laws were at present merely oral, or communicated from the former ages to the present solely by word of mouth. It is true indeed that, in the profound ignorance... 
