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Página 141
... fees , in cases of probate and administration , were , from early times , in most cases regulated by custom , and the author- ity and direction of the courts themselves , without statute provisions . A table of fees , established in ...
... fees , in cases of probate and administration , were , from early times , in most cases regulated by custom , and the author- ity and direction of the courts themselves , without statute provisions . A table of fees , established in ...
Página 142
... fees for services performed in his office . There is a differ- ence of opinion , in matter of law , in this respect , between the Man- agers and ourselves , wide enough , in my judgment , to extend over the whole case . If the House of ...
... fees for services performed in his office . There is a differ- ence of opinion , in matter of law , in this respect , between the Man- agers and ourselves , wide enough , in my judgment , to extend over the whole case . If the House of ...
Página 143
... fees in other courts , and other offices , as well as of the judges and registers of probate . It imposes no duty what- ever on any officer . It treats only of existing duties ... FEES . " ) I may add , that fees are recoverable , in 143.
... fees in other courts , and other offices , as well as of the judges and registers of probate . It imposes no duty what- ever on any officer . It treats only of existing duties ... FEES . " ) I may add , that fees are recoverable , in 143.
Página 144
... fees of office , renders services not enumerated in the fee bill , and is paid for those services ; and this ... fees , have a right to such fees , for services ren- dered , on the general principle of compensation for work and labor ...
... fees of office , renders services not enumerated in the fee bill , and is paid for those services ; and this ... fees , have a right to such fees , for services ren- dered , on the general principle of compensation for work and labor ...
Página 145
... fees , accruing in the probate offices , I shall proceed to a considera- tion of the charges contained in these articles . * And the first inquiry is , whether any misconduct or maladministra- tion in office , is sufficiently charged ...
... fees , accruing in the probate offices , I shall proceed to a considera- tion of the charges contained in these articles . * And the first inquiry is , whether any misconduct or maladministra- tion in office , is sufficiently charged ...
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Página 184 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 58 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society.
Página 44 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 47 - We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Página 24 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Página 96 - ... the precepts of justice, Christian charity and peace, which far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of princes, and guide all their steps, as being the only means of consolidating human institutions, and remedying their imperfections.
Página 24 - ... saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat, have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population, come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee.
Página 46 - The war, then, must go on. We must fight it through. And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence?
Página 184 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.