 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...accomplished practical lawyer. ' The student,' says Dr. Halifax, ' who confines himself to the institutes of his own country without joining to them any acquaintance...certain mechanical readiness in the forms and practical part of the law, he will not be able to comprehend that enlarged and general idea of it by which it... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 582 pages
...Burnett's Life of Hale, p. 24. " I have not the smallest scruple to assert," says a very learned writer, " that the student who confines himself to the institutions...profession ; though he may, perhaps, attain to a certain practical and mechanical readiness in the forms and practice of the law, he will not be able to comprehend... | |
 | David Hoffman - Law - 1836 - 468 pages
...growing views on the subject of legal science. Dr. Hallifax, in his Analysis of the Civil Law, remarks, 'Nor have I the smallest scruple to assert, that the...grounds and theory of his profession: though he may attain to a certain mechanical readiness in the forms and practical parts of the law, he will not be... | |
 | William Wright - Law - 2003 - 262 pages
...be seen that an infinite number of cases are founded on rules laid down in the Corpus Juris CivihV " Nor have I the smallest scruple to assert, that the...idea of it, by which it is connected with the great STUDY OP THE LAW. 41 system of universal jurisprudence; by the knowledge of which alone he will be... | |
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Nor have I the smallest scruple to assert, that the student who confines himself to the institutions of his own country, without joining to them any acquaintance with those of Imperial Rome, will never arrive at any considerable skill in the grounds and... 