Sentences with phrase «think judicial authorities»

Or why do you think judicial authorities recognize customs of a trade?

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«The proposition of law is one which, I think, has been accepted by the highest judicial authority, and acted upon for a great number of years.

He argues that «under any conception of our separation of powers, I would have thought powerful and centralized authorities like today's administrative agencies would have warranted less deference from other branches, not more,» and that judicial deference has «added prodigious new powers to an already titanic administrative state.»

His lordship thought it better to leave the question of amenability to judicial review out of account when considering the issue of public authority, not least to avoid a danger of circularity of reasoning.

In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.

From the best information, however, which I have been able to collect on this subject, it appears that the legislature, or General Court of Connecticut, originally possessed and exercised all legislative, executive, and judicial authority, and that from time to time it distributed the two latter in such manner as it thought proper, but without parting with the general superintending power or the right of exercising the same whenever it should judge it expedient.