 If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want...  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 53by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Richard Ross Perry - Pleading - 1897 - 536 pages
...Justice Holt uses even terser and stronger language: " It is a vain thing to imagine there should be right without a remedy, for want of right and want of remedy are convertibles." 2 So radical is this principle that the law expands by force of its inherent elasticity... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 954 pages
...without a remedy. 1 TR 512. " If a man has a right, he must, it has been observed in a celebrated case, have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise and enjoyment of it; and, indeed, it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy, for want... | |
 | State Bar Association of Wisconsin - Bar associations - 1900 - 430 pages
...recognition of that right? Chief Justice Holt long ago used these words: " If a man has a right, he must have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise and enjoyment of it; and indeed, it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy, for want of... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1901 - 1032 pages
...v. Nichols, 10 Met 259, [43 Am. D. 432] ; ' Co. Lit 1970. Schmidt v. a, 14 Ma 137; a v. Dow, 0. J.: "It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy...want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal." ' Hence, — Statute effectual — (Collateral right and remedy). — When the harmony of the law requires,... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - Damages - 1902 - 788 pages
...as reported by Lord Raymond, (2 Ld. Raym. 953,) Lord Holt said: "If the plaintiff has a right, lie must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain...want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal." SP 6 Mod. 53. The principles laid down by Lord Holt are so strongly commended, not only by authority,... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - Damages - 1903 - 1064 pages
...Mod. 45; Holt, 524), as reported by Lord Raymond, 2 Ld. Raym. 953, Lord Holt said: ' If the plaintiff has a right he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and л remedy if lie is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine... | |
 | George Chase - Torts - 1904 - 844 pages
...of Ashby v. White, as reported by Lord Raymond, (2 Ld. Raym. 953,) Lord Holt said: "If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to...want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal." SP 6 Mod. 53. The principles laid down by Lord Holt are so strongly commended, not only by authority,... | |
 | James William Norton-Kyshe - Law - 1904 - 432 pages
...See 23, below ; ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, 35 ; CORPORATIONS, 1 ; PUBLIC POLICY, 9 ; TRESPASS, 2. 20. It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy...for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal. — Holt, CJ, Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 953. See 6, above. 21. Where a man has but one remedy... | |
 | Common law - 1904 - 412 pages
...is wronged and endangered, he shall have a remedy." Lord Holt, in Ashby v. White: "If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it. ... It is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy." Lord Raym. 938; S. C, 6 Modern, 45; Judgment... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1086 pages
...law, as Lord Chief Justice Holt expressed it in Ashby v. White, 2 Ld. Raym. 953: "If a plaintiff have a right he must of necessity have a means to vindicate...it, and a remedy, if he is injured in the exercise and enjoyment of it. For indeed is it a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy, for want of... | |
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