177 W. Va. 218 - Pryor v. Gainer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nashville St Ry v. Browning · 171 W. Va. 445 - Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board · D. C. Federation of Civic Associations, Inc. v. Airis · Murray Hospital v. Angrove · 175 W. Va. 814 - Freeman v. Polling
Most-quoted passages
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“Inueterata consuetudo pro lege non im-merito custoditur, et hoc est ius quod dicitur moribus constitutum. nam cum ipsae leges nulla alia ex causa nos ten-eant, quam quod iudicio populi recep-tae sunt, mérito et ea, quae sine ullo script» populus probauit, tenebunt omnes: nam quid interest suffragio po-pulus uoluntatem suam declaret an rebus ipsis et factis? quare rectissime etiam illud receptum est, ut leges non solum suffragio legis latoris, sed etiam tácito consensu omnium per desuetudi-nem abrogentur. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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