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See also:STOWELL, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:SCOTT, See also:BARON (1745-1836) , See also:English
See also:judge and jurist, was See also:born at Heworth, a See also:village about 4 M. from See also:Newcastle, on the 17th of See also:October 1745, the son of a " coalfitter" (or tradesman engaged in the transport of See also:coal). His younger See also:brother See also:John became the famous See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:Eldon. Scott was educated at the Newcastle See also:grammar school and Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he gained a See also:Durham scholarship in 1761. In 1764 he graduated and became first a probationary See also:fellow and then—as successor to William (afterwards the well-known See also:Sir William) See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones—a See also:tutor of University college. As See also:Camden reader of See also:ancient See also:history (1774) he rivalled the reputation of See also:Blackstone. Although he had joined the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1762, it was not till 1776 that Scott devoted himself to a systematic study of See also:law. In 1779 he graduated as See also:doctor of See also:civil law, and, after the customary " See also:year of silence," commenced practice in the ecclesiastical courts. His professional success was rapid. In 1783 he became registrar of the See also:court of faculties, and in 1788 judge of the See also:consistory court and See also:advocate-See also:general, in that year too receiving the See also:honour of See also:knighthood; and in 1798 he was made judge of the high court of See also:admiralty. Sir William Scott twice contested the See also:representation of Oxford University—in 1780 without success, but successfully in 18o1. He also sat for Downton in 1790. Upon the See also:coronation of See also:George IV. (1821) he was raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Stowell. After a See also:life of distinguished judicial service Lord Stowell retired from the See also:bench—from the consistory court in See also:August 1821, and from the high court of admiralty in See also:December 1827. His See also:mental faculties became gradually feebler in his old See also:age, and he died on the 28th of See also:January 1836. Lord Stowell was twice married—in 1781 to See also:Anna Maria, eldest daughter and heiress of John Bagnall of See also:Early Court, Berks., by whom he had four See also:children, one of these, a daughter, survived him; and in 1813 to the See also:dowager marchioness of See also:Sligo.
Lord Stowell's judgments are See also:models alike of See also:literary See also:execution and of judicial reasoning. His See also:style is chaste yet not inornate, See also:nervous without abruptness, and perfectly adjusted in every instance to the subject with which he deals. His decisions in the cases of Dalyrmple v. Dalyrmple (Dr Dodson's See also:Report) and See also:Evans v. Evans (1 Hagg. 35)—from their combined force and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace, from the steadiness with which every See also:collateral issue is set aside, from their subtle insight into human motives and from the See also:light which they See also:cast on See also:marriage law—deserve and will repay attentive perusal. Lord Stowell composed with See also:great care, and some of the See also:MSS. which he revised for See also:Haggard and See also:Phillimore's Reports were full of inter-lineations. Stowell's mind was judicial rather than forensic—reasoning, not as for a See also:dialectic victory nor so as to convince the parties on whose suit he was deciding, but only with sufficient clearness, fulness and force to justify the decision at which he had arrived.
The See also:chief doctrines of See also:international law with the assertion and See also:illustration of which the name of Lord Stowell is identified are these: the perfect equality and entire See also:independence of all states (" Le See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis," 2 Dod. 243)—a logical See also:deduction from the Austinian See also:philosophy and still one of the fundamental principles of English See also:jurisprudence; that the elementary rules of international law bind even semi-barbarous states (the " Hurtige Hane," 2 Rob. 325) ; that See also:blockade to be binding must be effectual (the " Betsey," 1 Rob. 93) ; and that See also:contraband of See also:war is to be determined by " probable destination " (the " Jonge Margaretha," 1 Rob. 189). In the famous See also:Swedish See also:convoy See also:case (the " Maria," 1 Rob. 350; see, too, the " Recovery," 6 C. Rob. 348-9) Lord Stowell asserted that " a See also:prize court is a court not merely of the See also:country in which it sits but of the law of nations." " The seat of judicial authority," he added, in words which have become classic, " is indeed locally here, in the belligerent country, but the law itself has no locality." His dictum concerning the right of a belligerent to sink a neutral See also:ship, when unable to take her before a prize court, was much quoted in 1904 in reference to the sinking of the " See also:Knight See also:Commander " by the Russians in the Far See also:East.
The judgments of Lord Stowell were, almost without exception, confirmed on See also:appeal, and they are to this See also:day the international law of See also:England, and have become presumptive though not conclusive See also:evidence of the international law of See also:America. " I have taken care," wrote See also:Justice See also:Story, " that they shall See also:form the basis of the maritime law of the See also:United States, and I have no hesitation in saying that they ought to do so in that of every civilized country in the See also:world."
See Townsend, Lives of Twelve Eminent See also:Judges, vol. ii. ; Quarterly See also:Review, vol. lxxv.; W. E. See also:Surtees, See also:Sketch of Lords Stowell and Eldon; See also:Creasy, First See also:Platform of International Law; Reports of Prize Cases from 1745 to 1859, ed. S. See also:Roscoe (2 vols. 1905; contains all the more important of Lord Stowell's judgments).
End of Article: STOWELL, WILLIAM SCOTT, BARON (1745-1836)
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