| Walter Scott - 1836 - 518 pàgines
...alienate or surrender. The people arc in this reepcct like minors, to whom law assures their properly, but invests them with no title to give it away or consume it ; the national privileges are an estate en tilled from generation to generation, and they can neither be the subject of gift, exchange, nor... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pàgines
...RIGHTS. The rights of a free people are theirs to enjoy, but not theirs to alienate or surrender, N The people are in this respect like minors, to whom...temporary possession of them. No man is lord even of his own person, to the effect of surrendering his life or limbs to the mercy of another ; the contract... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 730 pàgines
...more easy, it did nol and could not render it in any case more legal. The rights of a flee people r.rc theirs to enjoy, but not theirs to alienate or surrender....temporary possession of them. No man is lord even of pis person, to the effect of surrendering his life or limbs to the mercy Of another; the contract of... | |
| Avery Allyn - 1853 - 370 pàgines
...people are in this respect like minors, to whom law assures their property, but invests them with ho title to give it away or consume it. The national...the effect of surrendering his LIFE or limbs to the MERC Y of another ; the contract of the merchant of Venice would be held null and void, from the beginning,... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1883 - 676 pàgines
...which he had no title to take at their hands. The people arc in this respect like minors, to whom the law assures their property, but invests them with...give it away or consume it ; the national privileges arc an estate entailed from generation to generation, and they can neither be the subject of gift,... | |
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