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That which in mean men we entitle patience, Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
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Although the decisions of the American Courts are of course not binding on us, yet the sound and enlightened views of American lawyers in the administration and development of the law a law, except so far as altered by statutory enactment, derived from a common source with our own entitle their decisions to the utmost respect and confidence on our part.
alexander cockburn— Cockburn, C.J., Scaramanga v. Stamp (1880), L. B. 5 Com. PI. Div. 303.
To entitle a plaintiff to maintain an action, it is necessary to shew a breach of some legal duty due from the defendant to the plaintiff.
C. J. Erie— Cox v. Burbidge (1863), 13 C. B. (N. S.) 436.
Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame... and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.
henry knox— Letter to Washington, urging Washington to attend the Philadelphia Convention
In consequence of the sensibility with which they are endowed, they ought to partake of natural right; so that mankind is subjected to a kind of obligation even toward the brutes. It appears, in fact, that if I am bound to do no injury to my fellow-creatures, this is less because they are rational than because they are sentient beings: and this quality, being common both to men and beasts, ought to entitle the latter at least to the privilege of not being wantonly ill-treated by the former.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau— Discourse on Inequality (1754), preface.
Lord Lytton (1876-80) organised the Delhi Durbar in 1877 to entitle Queen Victoria Kaiser-i-Hind ...Delhi was made capital in place of Calcutta in 1912; Coronation Durbar of King George (V) and Queen Marry was held at Delhi in 1911.
Mukitkanta Mohanty— Macmillan's General Knowledge Manual 2010, Macmillan, 1 February 2010, p.17
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.
jürgen habermas— Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996). Translation W. Rehg. Cambridge, p. 123
