"Codified" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... police officer. "From the statutes of 1876, your honour," was the reply. "Well, you needn't read any more," retorted the judge; "I'm judge in this Court, and my statutes are good enough law for anybody." A codified law and precedent cases were of no ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... convention.[10] This was one of the reasons which prompted the visit of the bishop to England in 1854. Before he set sail, however, he had called meetings in all the different centres of population; at these meetings he had laid his scheme before the Church, and he had carefully codified the criticisms which were offered. In most localities the draft was accepted as it stood. Auckland seems to have devised the idea of uniting bishop, clergy, and laity in one chamber. Christchurch had lost its man of insight through Godley's departure, ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas
... oppose them, the wealth and prosperity of the country vastly increased during his reign. Abbeys and monasteries had multiplied, public buildings been erected, towns rebuilt and beautified, and learning had made great advances. The laws of the country had been codified and regulated, the administration of justice placed on a firm basis. The kingly authority had greatly increased, and the great ealdormen were no longer semi-independent nobles, but officers of the crown. Serfdom, although not entirely abolished, had been mitigated and regulated. ...
— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty
... that an applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted State remedies if he has the right under State law to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented, 28 U.S.C.A. Sec. 2254. This section codified ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... New Idea; Statutes Increase of Late Years; Sociological Legislation only Considered; Early Legislation Political; English Law not Codified; Early Anglo-Saxon Laws; Freedom Gained in Guilds; Threefold Division of Government; No Constitution Controls Parliament; Restoration of English Law After the Conquest; Taxation by Common Consent; Earliest Social Statute; Recognition of Personal Property; Law of Land Tenure; The Charter ...
— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson |
