But arbitration, you say, will never succeed because the decisions cannot be enforced.
Then private settlement of quarrels practically ceased; trial by combat was abolished; and men learned that real honor lies in the graceful and manly acceptance of decisions rendered by impartial judges.
Here, then, is the nucleus of an easily accessible supreme court of the world, whose decisions would soon build up a new system of international law.
Had he died previous to this circumstance, his two wrong decisions would have been precedents and settled law.
Decisions of great importance in their bearing upon the liberty enjoyed by the clergy have been given.
King's further statement that he was an inefficient and partial judge, for the mere negative evidence that the Irish bar did not express any dissatisfaction with his decisions is not worth the slightest consideration.
Decisions of the common law courts are appealable to the House of Lords.
The writ of habeas corpus appealed administrative decisions to imprison not only after arrest for criminal proceedings, but any coercive measure for enforcing an administrative order.
Several legal decisions had declared seven years practice of a trade as good as an apprenticeship.
By 1714, the Privy Council ceased making decisions of policy.
The Chancery court did not record itsdecisions apparently because it did not see itself s bound by precedents.
Case decisions are in books compiled by various reporters who sit in on court hearings rather than in year books.
With the backing of the council, the Chancellor made decisions implementing the policy of the Statute of Laborers.
The king was to act only through his ministers and all public business was to be formally done in Privy Council with all its decisions signed by its members.
Decisions of the King's Bench and other common law courts could be appealed to Parliament.
The writ of certiorari allows administrative decisions to be reviewed by the common law courts for compliance with law, competency of the court, and interpretation of the administrative law.
After the Restoration, all legal decisions of the Commonwealth and Protectorate were confirmed subject to a right of appeal.
Court decisions were still appealable to the House of Lords.
Decisions by archbishops in testamentary, matrimonial, and marriage annulment matters were appealable to the Court of Chancery instead of to the pope.
A law of equity began to be developed from decisions by the Chancellor in his court of conscience from around 1370.
The Canandaigua Times thus expressed the general sentiment in an editorial, soon after the trial: The decisions of Judge Hunt in the Anthony case have been widely criticised, and it seems to us not without reason.
This act was passed through the exertions of Lord Camden and Mr. Fox in order to prevent the erroneous decisions of the judges from becoming the law of England.
His final decisions were what he came to trust least, and when the hour struck, it all came to pass quite differently, as it were accidentally and unexpectedly.
Footnote: The decisions as to the Irish difficulties are dealt with in the first portion of Chapter XXII.
This criticism, however, goes too far, and strikes at the root of the decisions of Parliament itself.
Its decisions would be respected by all who value Parliamentary methods, and much unseemly wrangling would be prevented for many years.
We did not want to keep the French out of Tunis, but we could not have ironclads used to force Tunisian law courts into giving decisions hostile to British subjects.
In these twodecisions the law and the facts pertaining to the claim were fully set forth and discussed.
Whither then shall we turn for that union of qualifications which must necessarily exist before the decisions of a critic can be of absolute value?
A reading of the decisions on this subject would have taught him that in order to constitute that offense it is not necessary that the assailant should actually stab with his knife or shoot with his pistol.
That was the common assertion made by him when decisions were rendered against him.
Bell, decided that year, the court came to that conclusion, relying upon certain decisions of the courts of England recognizing the right of the Crown to those metals.
I saw charges made by him against judges of the State courts; that they had been corrupt in their decisions against him; that they had been bought.
By the decisions of the federal courts, the commission's power has been reduced far below the intentions of the Congress that passed the law.
Such difficult decisions can be made best by a small group of men selected by competition.
It is a thought of wide bearings that numberless minor decisions in every petty business involve, if they are correctly made, a measuring of the rate of capitalization.
These decisions are made imperfectly, but as well as men of limited intelligence and honesty can make them.
In his terrible anger he resolved that Hualcoyotl should die, and ordered a meeting of his privy council, whose duty it was to pass upon the decisions of the king, to take place at once.
His advice was invariably good, and his decisions on questions referred to him for adjustment were always acquiesced in.
John de Troyes, senior of the Faculty of Theology, was the spokesman, and read the decisions of the faculty on each of the twelve articles.
They must write the decisions of the court by their own hands, especially in affairs of importance, as secrets would not be safe with minor officials.
Copies of decisionsare to be promptly given to the party requesting it.
If the good sense of Englishmen had revolted against their decisions in favour of the prerogative, the English reverence for law had made men submit to them.
Harper, and still more obviously from the fact, that the bailee's right to trespass and trover is asserted in the same breath with that of the bailor, as well as proved by express decisions to be cited.
It might be thought enough to cite the decisionsopposed to the rule of absolute responsibility, and to show that such a rule is inconsistent with admitted doctrines and sound policy.
If the analogy which led to this class of decisions were followed out, a disseisor could sue or be sued upon such covenants, if the other facts were of such a kind as to raise the question.
The language and decisions of the courts are perfectly clear; and there we find the German tradition kept alive for several centuries.
That is what analogy, as well as the decisions on this very subject, would lead us to expect.
It is easy to err by seeking too eagerly for simplicity, and by striving too hard to reduce all cases to artificial presumptions, which are less obvious than the decisions which they are supposed to explain.
We can only answer it by enumerating the decisions in which the old law is applied; and we shall find it hard to bring them together under a general principle.
Perhaps the actual decisions could be reconciled on a [137] narrower principle, but the rule just stated goes the length of saying that in business matters a man makes every statement (of a kind likely to be acted on) at his peril.
In one of the most famous of these decisions (McCulloch vs.
It was partly his policy in providing for the bank and demonstrating its usefulness, with his other measures to develop the powers of the central government, which made possible the decisions of Marshall.
Marshall, in the series of great decisions by which he strengthened the power of the Union, often made use of these provisions to justify his reasoning.
He has drawn an instructive parallel between the decisions of the olden time, upholding the power of Congress to deal with individuals in the interests of slavery, and the power conferred on Congress by the recent amendments.
The decisions of Judge Ricks and Judge Billings are an acknowledgment, at least, of the principle of public control or regulation of railroads and of commerce generally.
Nothing new was granted, and although the suspended decisions about flour and sugars were favorable to them, the French merchants have complained of what has been obtained.
It was one of the hardest decisions to make, but I know the advantages of steady work even though I had to start with a cut in wages.
Our ranking officers made thedecisions to march mostly at night to avoid mistaken attack by American fighters.
V]iewpoint-based funding decisions can be sustained in instances in which the government is itself the speaker, or in instances, like Rust, in which the government used private speakers to transmit information pertaining to its own program.
And while the government may, subject only to rational basis review, make content-based decisions in selecting works of artistic excellence to subsidize, see NEA v.
In my judgment, it is both necessary and appropriate for those decisions to evaluate the content of a proposed student activity.
In the present case the expressed complaints turn upon the absence of warning that the affected officers were at risk and that the critical decisions taken against them were unsupported by any evidence of probative value.
Costs The applicants ask for an order quashing one of the Commissioner's decisions as to costs.
And it is said that the description 'one of the most remarkable executivedecisions every to have been made in the corporate affairs of a large New Zealand company' is, to say the least, far-fetched.
The constable, the offender, the witness and attorney and a few neighbors constituted the prairie court, and doubtless the decisions were as legal and as lasting as those of more imposing surroundings of later days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decisions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
