To prevent alienation of property to religious houses, with the consequent loss of service to the superior or chief lords, a licence from the chief lord was required to legalize the alienation (Magna Carta, and Edw.
From that event may be dated a course of policy that all posterity will assuredly condemn, terminating as it did in the Chinese Government being compelled to legalize this nefarious trade.
So the Tien-tsin treaty is not the law in Hong-kong, because no ordinance has been passed tolegalize it.
The Ashburton treaty was not the law of Canada, because the Government had neglected to legalize it by statute.
Hence he proposes to legalize a practice which the law cannot prevent, and by so doing to enable the railroads to confederate themselves in a manner which shall be at once both public and responsible.
The act lying before me is the first act that has in any manner attempted to legalize the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits.
Did not Congress expressly legalize this order by declaring that the order shall be a defense in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal, for acts done in pursuance of it?
If it were not, I do not conceive it would legalize my capture.
Certainly, if we legalize combinations to restrict competition among capitalists, we should among laborers as well.
Suppose we were to legalizethese contracts and permit the establishment of monopolies.
She also led in the protest against the excise bill which resulted in the modification of some of its worst features, and in the protest against the infamous bill to legalize the social evil, preventing its introduction into the legislature.
The law must notlegalize scoundrelism; but whosoever by cunning usury brings such to ruin is and ever will be a scoundrel.
Therefore, according to your notion the law does legalize scoundrelism; at least it allows free scope to scoundrels.
Cromwell, when he attempted tolegalize his power, and to settle his conquered country in a state of order, did not look for dispensers of justice in the instruments of his usurpation.
With us it was the case of a legal monarch attempting arbitrary power--in France it is the case of an arbitrary monarch, beginning, from whatever cause, to legalize his authority.
Mr. Jefferson was very strongly of opinion that an amendment to the Constitution could alone legalize the act, and this opinion seems to have been shared by Mr. Madison and by the Attorney-General.
The author of the Opium Question Solved says: "The negotiators dared not mention it; the Emperor would not legalize the hated source of all his humiliations.
The Chinese, then, were unable to stop the traffic and unwilling to legalize it.
But this does not legalizethe bigamous marriage or legitimize the children.
The law could legalize the King's inclination, and who dare gainsay its enactments?
Parliament would not have been asked to legalize the national schism in 1534.
And the cautious and curious phraseology of their statutes on the subject, indicates plainly that they themselves either doubted their power to legalize it, or feared to exercise it.
It is also doubtful whether Parliament had the power--or perhaps rather it is certain that they had not the power--to legalize it any where, if they had attempted to do so.
The rule of law is materially different as to the terms necessary to legalize and sanction any thing contrary to natural right, and those necessary to legalize things that are consistent with natural right.
But there is a great difference between a statute, that should merely screen a person from punishment for a crime, and one that should legalize his right to property acquired by the crime.
Of course it did not legalize it in the North American colonies.
They were enacted from time to time to legalize what was then regarded as an unauthorized intrusion upon the national domain.
In truth, they do outlaw the slave and legalize his destruction at the will of his master.
