I knew little about the tricks of lawyers, and the unfair rulings of judges.
Judge Stevens and Judge Lacey, who were at the trial, told me they never saw such determination on the part of any judge to cut out the defense as the rulings of Judge Gillette.
The merchants did not accept these rulings without protest.
The rulingsof the Sovereign Council in 1667 seem to show it.
Marshall's gentle manner and large-minded, soft-spoken rulings as a trial judge were thus adroitly made to serve as an argument for the condemnation of his associate, and for his own undoing if Chase should be convicted.
His attempt to make his rulings "palatable to all parties" had "so often wrapt them in obscurity" that it was hard "to understand on which side the court had decided.
Rodney here refers to the Republican allegation that Chase tried to secure appointment as Chief Justice by flattering Adams through charges to juries, rulings in court, and speeches on the stump.
One of Marshall's rulingson the admissibility of evidence moved Blennerhassett to ecstasies.
But Jefferson was then so savagely attacking Marshall's rulings in the Burr trial (see infra, chaps.
The Labor Board has made some rather sweeping rulings in cutting down overtime payments and the like, however--all to the cost of the rank and file of the railroaders.
A private corporation is bound neither by the national agreements of the Railroad Administration or by the rulings of the Railroad Labor Board out at Chicago.
And the joke would be all the more appreciable were it not that there is so much anger caused by the arbitrariness of the Legation's trade rulings and the baiting of some honest men, while less honest go free and trade with impunity.
A number of rulingsserve to define the limitations or partial exceptions to the rule that a barrister's clients are exclusively solicitors and that he must never be in direct contact with litigants themselves.
The above extracts show how broad in scope and minute in detail are these authoritative rulings on every phase of professional life and daily practice in England.
An examination of these rulings shows very few findings upon rudimentary morals; it apparently is taken for granted that lawyers are familiar with such commandments as "Thou shalt not steal.
Until a short time ago any person convicted in an English court was without appeal--the rulings and sentence of a single judge were final--but this manifest injustice has lately been cured by a law granting the right of appeal.
In almost all other courts, an application for a new trial on the ground of erroneous rulings by the judge, is made to a higher and independent tribunal.
In this court, however, an application for a new trial is addressed to and decided by the same judge who tried the case, and whose erroneous rulings are complained of.
It may be even he will explain why he made those strange rulings during the trial and what that mysterious conference was when he called the lawyers to his desk and they talked together for so long.
A young lawyer once had this principle so firmly fixed in his mind that when he went to court he began taking exceptions to everything, even rulings in his favor.
The nature of an exception is a notice served on the judge that his rulings are wrong.
These requests to charge may go back and forth indefinitely with rulings and exceptions.
Gentlemen," he says, "I must instruct you to eliminate from your minds any discussion of counsel upon questions of law or rulings of the court upon the rejections of testimony, or decisions upon motions to dismiss or direct.
The secretary of the Minister for Church affairs has promised him that the funds, books and archives will be returned, but that there can be no hope of having the government rescind the rulings entirely.
The Guardian does not wish to be asked to make rulings on situations which might develop.
Other rulings and actions, contrary to the law, but intended to annoy and disfranchise the members of the Church, that the minority might rule, were attempted, among them denial to the women of their suffrage.
The Englebrecht Decision The case never came to trial, for from the supreme court of the United States there came a decision which overturned the rulings of the tyrannical judges.
These rulings are based on the premise expressed in Hans v.
Exactly similar rulings will find their prompt proof with regard to any other of the ganglia of the sympathetic system.
A knowledge of Osteopathy will prepare you to bring the system under the rulings of the physical laws of life.
In November, 1879, a similar case was argued before the supreme court which in its rulings sustained the constitutionality of the militia law in direct opposition to Judge Barnum's rulings and opinions.
All exceptions to rulings of the court are to be noted in the docket in order whenever they occur.
That is contrary to the rulings of various laws, by which favor is granted the said city of the lading-space in the ships that are permitted, and not to any person of Nueva España or Perú.
Excellency had not brought any new rulings with him from the courts of Rome and Madrid.
When the Book of Aqdas is published, the believers will have then full and authoritative prescriptions about the form of prayer, and other instructions and rulings of a spiritual character.
Misinterpretations were so numerous as to render satisfactory rulings almost out of the question and explanatory legislation imperative.
In the thousands of appeals, memorials, petitions, and complaints, and the rulings and decisions upon them, were written the real history of British imperial control over the American colonies.
Of such usages, under the rulings of the courts, many were soon crystallized into law.
Footnote: See Paper on "New Trials for Erroneous Rulings upon Evidence," by Professor J.
Judges of trial courts, when candidates for re-election, may expect the publication of similar attacks on rulings which they have made.
There is also a certain natural bias, insensible perhaps to themselves, which tends to make appellate courts stand by one of their members whose rulings while holding a trial court are brought in question.
Even courts of justice change their rulings and holdings when they find themselves in error.
Under the rule of the Senate as adopted, the rulings of the President were to stand unless a Senator should ask for the judgment of the Senate.
This protection is afforded partly by formal regulations, partly by judicial rulings on special cases.
But we have seen that contract protection is not only afforded by these formal regulations but also by judicial rulings on special cases.
The inspector ought to be accessible to the expression of all wishes, advice, and complaints; but, on the other hand, he should not yield blind obedience to the rulings and representations of such organs.
The Labour Board shall consist of a Labour Councillor and at least two paid officers; it must pass its rulings and decisions in full sitting.
Rather than law, what he followed was Rulings: Office Rulingsand precedents.
I wonder you and father don't turn to law books or rulings or something!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rulings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
