Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a… — Edward Jenks Bloodshed Copy Share Image
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is… — Edward Jenks Age Copy Share Image
The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks Doom Copy Share Image
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. — Edward Jenks Affair Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system? — Edward Jenks Chaos Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when… — Edward Jenks English law Copy Share Image
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English… — Edward Jenks English law Copy Share Image
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet. — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Bears Copy Share Image
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took… — Edward Jenks Achievement Copy Share Image
The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation,… — Edward Jenks Abuse Copy Share Image
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with… — Edward Jenks Ability Copy Share Image
The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,… — Edward Jenks Action Copy Share Image
We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of… — Edward Jenks Action Copy Share Image
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified… — Edward Jenks Accusation Copy Share Image
But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
