Blanshard was born in London to a wealthy mercantile family, and after reading law at Cambridge University, served in the army in British India.

Even though Lewis set out his ideas at length, can be seen as both a late pragmatist and an early analytic philosopher, and had students of the calibre of Brand Blanshard, Nelson Goodman, and Roderick Chisholm, his reputation declined after WWII, and the secondary literature on Lewis during the second half of the 20th century is less than imposing.

The American rationalist Brand Blanshard was so strongly influenced by Bradley, Bosanquet, and Green ( and other British philosophers ) that he could almost be classified as a British philosopher himself.

In 1839 the Canada Company sent a surveyor to Blanshard Township in the Huron Tract to choose a site for a town on the Thames River which would later be named St. Marys.

Harry Blanshard Wood, VC, MM ( 21 June 1882 – 15 August 1924 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was not initially appointed to be Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island-the position instead went to Richard Blanshard, an English barrister.

London sent Richard Blanshard to be its governor.

Others of this school of thought, for example, Brand Blanshard, hold that this whole must be so interdependent that every element in it necessitates, and even entails, every other element.

Proponents include Brand Blanshard.

* Blanshard, Brand.

Following the brief governorship of Richard Blanshard, James Douglas, Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay post, assumed the role in 1851.

Eustace has been portrayed on screen by Leslie Bradley in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ) and by Joby Blanshard in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ), part of the series Theatre 625.

During this period, Paul Blanshard was an Associate Editor of The Nation and served during the 1950s as its Special Correspondent in Uzbekistan.

He died in 1902, having lived in nearby Blanshard Township since 1868.

With Paul Blanshard.

Blanshard, " Greek Love ," in Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity ( Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ), p. 131.

* Town and Country-A largely commercial and industrial zone in the southwest corner of Saanich, next to the Victoria border, between Blanshard St., Burnside Rd., and Tillicum Rd.

Major Thomas Blanshard built it of Bermuda limestone between 1822-1823.

He lived in Blanshard Township from 1868 until his death in 1902.

Percy Brand Blanshard ( August 27, 1892 – November 19, 1987 ) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason.

Brand Blanshard was born August 27, 1892 in Fredericksburg, Ohio.

His parents were Francis, a Congregational minister, and Emily Coulter Blanshard, Canadians who met in high school in Weston, Ontario.

The freethinker and sometime The Nation editor Paul Beecher Blanshard was his fraternal twin.

Mr. Blanshard brought his sons to Grand Rapids, Michigan for maternal care by his mother, Orminda Adams Blanshard, widow of Methodist clergyman Shem Blanshard.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

The Court held that Congress had intended the federal judiciary to `` fashion '' an appropriate law of labor-management contracts.

By law, Augustus held a collection of powers granted to him for life by the Senate, including supreme military command, and those of tribune and censor.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

This expression encapsulated the right of citizens to take the initiative: to stand to speak in the assembly, to initiate a public law suit ( that is, one held to affect the political community as a whole ), to propose a law before the lawmakers or to approach the council with suggestions.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

This Ottawa County preference for the eight ounce can may stem from a long-standing blue law held in many Western Michigan cities that prohibit sale of beer and wine on Sundays.

The term " common law " was used to describe the law held in common between the circuits and the different stops in each circuit.

The more widely a particular law was recognized, the more weight it held, whereas purely local customs were generally subordinate to law recognized in a plurality of jurisdictions.

As another example, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1877, held that a Michigan statute that established rules for solemnization of marriages did not abolish pre-existing common-law marriage, because the statute did not affirmatively require statutory solemnization and was silent as to preexisting common law.

In 1938, the U. S. Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 304 U. S. 64, 78 ( 1938 ), overruled earlier precedent, and held " There is no federal general common law ," thus confining the federal courts to act only as interpreters of law originating elsewhere.

Examples of common law being replaced by statute or codified rule in the United States include criminal law ( since 1812, U. S. courts have held that criminal law must be embodied in statute if the public is to have fair notice ), commercial law ( the Uniform Commercial Code in the early 1960s ) and procedure ( the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the 1930s and the Federal Rules of Evidence in the 1970s ).

2002 ), a U. S. court of appeals held that H. Beatty Chadwick could be held indefinitely under federal law, for his failure to produce US $ 2. 5 mill.

In one case, the Provincial Judges Reference ( 1997 ), it was found a law can be held invalid for contradicting unwritten principles, in this case judicial independence.

Since the transcription of the Talmud, notable rabbis have compiled law codes that are generally held in high regard: the Mishneh Torah, the Tur, and the Shulchan Aruch.

He also signed the Worker's Compensation Act of 1910, which required a compulsory, employer-paid plan of compensation for workers injured in hazardous industries and a voluntary system for other workers ; after the New York Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1911, a popular referendum was held that successfully made the law an amendment in the New York Constitution.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Tylor and McLennan, historians of religion, held that the concept of fetishism fostered a shift of attention away from the relationship between people and God, to focus instead on a relationship between people and material objects, and that this, in turn, allowed for the establishment of false models of causality for natural events.

Another very interesting congress was the one held in Copenhagen ( 1936 ), which was dedicated to quantum physics and causality.

Unlike many ancient Greeks, who thought that an infinite regress of causality is possible ( and thus held that the universe is uncaused ), Thomas argues that an infinite chain never accomplishes its objective and is thus impossible.