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491:(1806) to quash an indictment of illegal worker combination. Insisting on the supremacy of the elected legislature, Sampson's objected that the prosecution was reasoning "abstractedly" from principles of English common law without any reference to statute. It was this, alone, that allowed them to deny journeymen the right to "conspire against starvation" while, without notice or challenge, leaving master tradesmen in a "permanent conspiracy" to suppress wages. He went on to argue that an "indiscriminating adoption of common law" had caused the
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society to carry over "barbarities" from the Old: laws that "can only be executed upon those not favoured by fortune with certain privileges" and that in some cases operate "entirely against the poor".
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had remained neutral when Duane's attempted to force the issue in the 1805 election in
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and distributed to all members of the commission, in order that the members might carefully consider the suggestions. The new code was completed in 1916. Under the aegis of
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who drew upon French, and other
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in a manner that revealed how sound the 1893 original had been. The Marine Insurance Act (mildly amended) has been a notable success, adopted
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688:In 1930 the League of Nations held at the Hague a
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395:Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945
1703:(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999), pg. 256.
472:(admitted to the New York bar in 1806), and
375:Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
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