Norsk retstidende, Volume 63

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Forlag af P.I. Hoppe, 1898 - Law
 

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Page 444 - But it is equally true, though only of late and slowly beginning to be acknowledged, that a numerous assembly is as little fitted for the direct business of legislation as for that of administration. There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done, not only by experienced and exercised minds, but by minds trained to the task through long and laborious study, as the business of making laws.
Page 444 - A reason no less conclusive is, that every provision of a law requires to be framed with the most accurate and long-sighted perception of its effect on all the other provisions; and the law when made should be capable of fitting into a consistent whole with the previously existing laws.
Page 409 - Any influence brought to bear upon a person entering into an agreement, or consenting to a disposal of property, which, having regard to the age and capacity of the party, the nature of the transaction, and all the circumstances of the case, appears to have been such -as to preclude the exercise of free and deliberate judgment...
Page 411 - Id privilegium, quod militantibus datum est, ut quoquo modo facta ab his testamenta rata sint, sic intellegi debet, ut utique prius constare debeat testamentum factum esse, quod et sine scriptura a non militantibus quoque fieri potest. is ergo miles, de cuius bonis apud te quaeritur, si convocatis ad hoc hominibus, ut voluntatem suam testaretur, ita locutus est, ut...
Page 409 - Nothing can be more important to maintain than the jurisdiction, long asserted and upheld by the Court, in watching over and protecting those who are placed in a situation to require protection as against acts of those who have influence over them, by which acts the person having such influence obtains any benefit to himself. In such cases the Court has always regarded the transaction with jealousy ""—"a jealousy almost invincible,
Page 409 - ... than the jurisdiction, long asserted and upheld by the Court, in watching over and protecting those who are placed in a situation to require protection as against acts of those who have influence over them, by which acts the person having such influence obtains any benefit to himself. In such cases the Court has always regarded the transaction with jealousy " («) — a jealousy almost invincible, in Lord Eldon's words (b).
Page 444 - There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done not only by experienced and exercised minds, but by minds trained to the task through long and laborious study as the business of making laws. * * * Every provision of a law requires to be framed with the most accurate and long sighted perception of its effect on all the other provisions ; and the law when made should be capable of fitting into a consistent whole with the previously existing law.
Page 409 - The principle applies to every case when influence is acquired and abused, where confidence is reposed and betrayed.

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