...determine, not according to his private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one. MIREHOUSE v. RENNELL, House of Lords (1833). (i Cl. & F. Extract from the opinion of Parke, B. : Our...

...not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land, not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one. In a word, the student of law is taught that the doctrine of the law is, thai precedents and rules...

...according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land; . . . not delegated to pronounce a new law. but to maintain and expound the old." I Bl. Com. 69. In the same connection, speaking of overruled cases he adds : " But even in such cases...

...not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land, not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one, jus diccre et non jus dare." Broom, Legal Maxims. 8th eJ. p. 147. The defendant, it is true, has wilfully...

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...breast of any subsequent judge to alter or swerve from according to his private sentiments : he being not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one, ius dicere, et non ius dare' (Broom's Legal Maxims, p. 109). " I venture to cite these Civil Law maxims,...

...not according to his own private judgement, but according to the known laws and customs of the land, not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one. Yet this rule admits of exceptions, where the former determination is most evidently contrary to reason;...

...according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land — not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one — Jus dicere et non jus dare." This is, perhaps, as strong and broad a statement of the doctrine...

...not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one." 2 In regard to the presumption of correctness attaching to a judicial decision, it may be remarked that...

...not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one. Yet this rule admits of exception, where the former determination is most evidently [*70] contrary...