The Parr and Salmon Controversy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: principles of law and equity are applied by the judges of the land. Last century almost all classes of society took an active interest in this description of literature, as may be seen from Arnofs Reports of Criminal Trials, from the.year 1536 to the year 1784, where, among the lists of subscribers to the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: principles of law and equity are applied by the judges of the land. Last century almost all classes of society took an active interest in this description of literature, as may be seen from Arnofs Reports of Criminal Trials, from the.year 1536 to the year 1784, where, among the lists of subscribers to the publication, may be observed English, Irish, and Scottish judges, barristers, nobility, landed proprietors, clergymen, medical men, attornies, and solicitors, and tradesmen of all grades. Lord Brougham, in his book titled the British Constitution, takes occasion to remark that the people, to be benefited, must read for the sake of instruction, not for the momentary satisfaction of having their merriment excited or their spleen gratified, (p. 118). Lord Kames, in the 4th edition of his Principles of Equity, (Introduction, pages 27 and 28), dwells on the same subject, and insists on the benefit society at large would derive from the common people possessing a knowledge of those rational principles upon which law is founded. His words to that purpose are excellent words, and I will here set them down: ? Ignorance of law hath a most unhappy effect: we all regard with partiality our own interest; and it requires knowledge no less than candour to resist the thought of being treated unjustly when a Court pronounces against us. Thus peevishness and discontent arise, and are vented against the judges of the land. This, in a free government, is a dangerous and infectious spirit, to remedy which we cannot be too chapter{{Section 4solicitous. Knowledge of those rational principles upon which law is founded, I venture to suggest as a remedy no less efficacious than palatable. Were such knowledge universally spread, judges who adhere to rational principles, and who, with superior underst...