 | Church of England. Diocese of London. Consistory Court - Ecclesiastical law - 1822 - 580 pages
...be complained that by this inactivity of the Courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that Courts of Justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther ; they cannot make men virtuous : and, as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | Great Britain, Great Britain. Courts - Divorce - 1832 - 612 pages
...that by this inactivity of the Courts , 'id > ' .^" much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that Courts of Justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther; they cannot make men virtuous; and, as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | T. M. Lalor, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 712 pages
...unhappiness; but this is not sufficient. The remedy is elsewhere. To use the Ianguage of a learned judge, " courts of justice do not pretend to " furnish cures for all the miseries of human life." I have no doubt the defendant has, in some respects, been unmindful of the obligations of a husband... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Divorce - 1841 - 532 pages
...be complained that by this inactivity of the courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is that courts of justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther; they cannot make men virtuous; and as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1842 - 812 pages
...be complained that by this inactivity of the courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that courts of justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther ; they cannot make men virtuous : and, as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 562 pages
...inactivity of the courts much injustice may be suffered and much misery produced, the answer is that the courts of justice do not pretend to furnish cures for all the miseries of human life. Petty vexations applied to such a constitution of mind, tender, sensitive, and refined, may certainly... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...be complained that by this inactivity of the courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that courts of justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther ; they cannot make men virtuous : and, as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 372 pages
...complained, that by this inactivity of the courts, much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that courts of justice do...furnish cures for all the miseries of human life, and as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue, there may be much unhappiness which human... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...be complained that by this inactivity of the courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that courts of justice do...or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no farther ; they cannot dfcke men virtuous ; and, as the happiness of the world depends upon its virtue,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...the miseries of human life. They redress or punish gross violations of duty, but they go no faither ; they cannot make men virtuous , and, as the happiness...the world depends upon its virtue, there may be much unhappinesa in it which human laws cannot undertake to remove. Still less is it cruelty, where it wounds... | |
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And if it be complained that by this inactivity of the Courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that Courts of Justice do not pretend to furnish cures for all the miseries of human life. 
