 | United States. Supreme Court - 1852 - 668 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...for aggravated misconduct or lawless acts, by means pf a civil action, and the damages, inflicted by way of penalty or punishment, given to the party injured.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1858 - 778 pages
...been maintained. as the beet exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...lawless acts by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of penalty or punishment given to the party injured. In many civil actions, such as... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 746 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...acts, by means of a civil action, and the damages, inflicted by way of penalty or punishment, given to the party injured. In many civil actions, such... | |
 | William Henry Browne - 1873 - 720 pages
...in view the enormity of his offence, rather than the measure of compensation to the plaintiff. . . . By the common, as well as by statute law, men are often punished for' aggravated conduct or lawless acts by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of penalty or... | |
 | 1880 - 920 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...acts, by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of penalty or punishment, given to the party injured." Grier, J., in Day v. Woodworth,... | |
 | 1885 - 1902 pages
...enormity of his offense, rather than the measure of compensation to the plaintiff. * * * By the common aa well as by statute law men are often punished for...acts, by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted, by way of penalty or punishment, given to the party injured." In Milwaukee R. Co. \.Anns,... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 pages
...exposition of what the law Is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common, as well as by the statute, law, men are often punished for aggravated...acts, by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of penalty or punishment given to the party Injured. In many civil actious, such as... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1897 - 786 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common, as well as by statute law, men are...acts, by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of penalty or punishment given to the party injured. In many civil actions, such as... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1886 - 718 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...acts by means of a civil action, and the damages, inflicted by way of penalty or punishment, given to the party injured." P. 37Í. See also Milwaukee... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1886 - 1238 pages
...to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By the common as well as by statute law, men are often...lawless acts by means of a civil action, and the damages inflicted by way of pena Ityor punishment given to the party injured." 18 How. 871. See, also, Milwaukee... | |
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We are aware that the propriety of this doctrine has been questioned by some writers, but if repeated judicial decisions for more than a century are to be received as the best exposition of what the law is, the question will not admit of argument. By... 
