 | United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - Broj stranica: 738
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer; these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of the common affairs of life than does one man, that they can draw wiser and... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - Broj stranica: 960
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer; these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of the common affairs of life than does one man ; that they can draw wiser and... | |
 | 1874 - Broj stranica: 626
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer, these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...the affairs of life, to the facts proven, and draw an unanimous conclusion. This average judgment thus given, it is the great effort of the law to obtain.... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1884 - Broj stranica: 550
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer — these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience of the affairs of life to the facts proved, and draw a unanimous conclusion. This average judgment thus given it is the great effort of... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1879 - Broj stranica: 592
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer; these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of the common affairs of life than does one VOL. XIII.— 9. Opinion of the Court... | |
 | 1893 - Broj stranica: 2192
...have themselves seen and heard, — the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer, — thtse sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of the common affairs of life than does one man; that they can draw wiser and... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1881 - Broj stranica: 682
...they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer ; these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of the common affairs of life than does one man ; that they can draw wiser and... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - Broj stranica: 1162
...education and men of little education— the merchant, ttie mechanic, the farmer, the laborer — these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...given, it is the great effort of the law to obtain." This is the rule even in the Federal courts. The legislation recommended, it seems to me, would extend... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1883 - Broj stranica: 876
...the mechanic, the fnrmer, the laborer ; these sit together, consult, apply their separate experiences of the affairs of life to the facts proven, and draw...conclusion. This average judgment thus given, it is the final effort of the law to obtain. Per Hunt, J., in 1 7 Wall. 663. Although the facts arc undisputed,... | |
 | 1884 - Broj stranica: 1006
...have themselves seen and heard — the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer — these sit together, consult, apply their separate experience...draw a unanimous conclusion. This average judgment there given, it is the great effort of the law to obtain. It is assumed that twelve men know more of... | |
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Twelve men of the average of the community, comprising men of education and men of little education, men of learning and men whose learning consists only in what they have themselves seen and heard, the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the laborer;... 
