Even before it is clearly known whether the innovation be damageable or not, the judge is competent to issue a prohibition to innovate until the point can be determined.
The reason of this is, that in matters of civil law the majority is obliged to defer to the authority of the legal profession, and that the American lawyers are disinclined to innovate when they are left to their own choice.
But it must then be inquired whether the cause which induces them toinnovate and to destroy is accidental, or whether it belongs to some lasting purpose which they entertain.
The poet, the dramatist, the historian, have their predecessors, and either intentionally copy them or intentionally innovate upon them.
It is not because they could innovate if they pleased in the common law that they are said to command it, but because it is known that they will enforce it as it stands.
They command because, being by the assumption possessed of uncontrollable force, they could innovate without limit at any moment.
And though no overt attempts to innovate on the established ceremonies had begun in this period, before the end of 1520 several preached against them, and the whole north of Germany was full of expectation.
It was not desirable to innovate or change the established order of things, except strong reasons existed for the change.
This was done at first, and the mover, he supposed, wished not to innovate upon the law as originally passed.
Although, therefore, the constitution of France emanated in the usual form of a royal charter, the King was no more empowered to recall or innovate its provisions, than King John to abrogate those of the English Magna Charta.
She prudently replied, that as she would not innovate any thing, she would still protect them in the immunities and privileges of which she found them possessed.
As the latter is generally brought upon People by Degrees, it will be their Duty to watch against even the smallest attempt to "innovate a single Iota" in their Privilege.
From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.
