Author: George Frederick Rush

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780484017350

Excerpt from A Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice: State and Federal For man's intellectual use and guidance, however, it is necessary that some authoritative agency, like the courts, through their decisions, formulate rights in lan guage as accurately as possible from time to time, ao cording to the light of reason, which means according to just and true grounds, so far as the race is able to perceive them. These decisions are law if the reason ing is sound. Thus, in American and English law, nu like the foreign Napoleonic statutory code law, the basic rights of man, 'among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, phrases which include numberless rights, are not intended to be created or limited by statutory words, but are discoverable by sound reason alone; and justice is established not upon the words of this or that legislature, or king, or mob, not even upon unreasonable or degraded custom, but upon sound reason alone. Reason is the highest law, said Cicero. What is not reason is not law, says Blackstone. He knows not the law who knows not the reason thereof, says Coke. Her seat is the bosom of God, says Hooker. It is because our system of law rests upon such foundations that the American or English lawyer becomes a zealous stud ent, an enthusiastic devotee of the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.