legal decision Quotes
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. The last sentence some scholars think was originated by William Scott, a legal official of the British Navy.
Incredibly enough, until this Supreme Court Decision, bigots would sell a home on the open market and write into the deed that the house may never be sold to a Black, a Jew, a Mormon, or any other person one of the owners did not like. This was actually enforced by American courts trying to preserve segregation in housing until 1948 and the 1956 decision stopped the practice but housing segregation persisted by other means.
This principle that the jury may, if it chooses, decide on the law and not neccessarily follow the Judges instructions on the law was held by John Adams and John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as well as political and judicial leaders throughout American History. But in the 20th century the Judiciary and many legeslatures has tried to restrict taht freedom of the Juries. At the beginning of the 21st Century, the only state whose laws explictly followed that practice was Maryland, and even there, very few judges ever informed juries that they could override or ignore him on matters of law.
