Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ), Plato ’ s greatest pupil, wrote a treatise on methods of reasoning used in deductive proofs ( see Logic ) which was not substantially improved upon until the 19th century.

" In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

In the unfinished treatise he left behind, later called " De contemptu mundi ," or On Contempt for the World, he calls upon readers to fly from this world of adultery, sodomy, murder and envy.

* A treatise upon modern instrumentation and orchestration by Hector Berlioz

" Stanton worked to enshrine the Declaration of Sentiments as a foundational treatise in a number of ways, not the least of which was by imbuing the small, three-legged tea table upon which the first draft of it was composed an importance similar to that of Thomas Jefferson's desk upon which he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Closely connected with this treatise was that upon ambiguous words or ideas, which, without doubt, corresponded to book E of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

The Attack upon Plato and the treatise On Piety, which are sometimes referred to as separate works, were perhaps only two of the many digressions in the history of Philip ; some writers have doubted their authenticity.

* The Olde Religion: A treatise, wherein is laid downe the true state of the difference betwixt the Reformed and the Romane Church ; and the blame of this schisme is cast upon the true Authors ( 1628 )

In 1570 he wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch titled " Yede Mosheh " ( The Hands of Moses ); also an exposition of the Talmudical treatise " Abot " ( Ethics of the Fathers ), published in Salonica in 1563 ; and a collection of sermons delivered upon various occasions, particularly funeral orations, entitled " Meammeẓ Koaḥ " ( Re-enforcing Strength ).

* Die Phariseer und Sadducäer, a classic treatise upon this subject ( Greifswald, 1874 )

He was engaged at the time of his death upon the preparation of a large treatise on economics and had drawn up a table of contents and completed some chapters and parts of chapters.

In the meantime he was engaged upon a much more important logical treatise, which appeared in 1874 under the title of The Principles of Science.

* The treatise Über die Willensfreiheit ( 1858 ), followed in 1859 by Die Philosophie der Kirchenväter, which was promptly placed upon the Index, and led to the prohibition of all Catholic students from attending his lectures.

In his A Letter to a Friend, a medical treatise full of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition, he wrote of it:

In 1786 Horne Tooke conferred perpetual fame upon his benefactor's country house by adopting, as a second title of his elaborate philological treatise of " Epea Pteroenta " — the expression ἔπεα πτερόεντα, épea pteróenta ( see " Winged words "), comes from Homer — the more popular though misleading title of The Diversions of Purley.

On his return to London on 10 December 1684, he informed the Royal Society " that he had lately seen Mr Newton at Cambridge, who had showed him a curious treatise De Motu ", which at Halley's desire he promised to send to the Society to be entered upon their register.

* Surgeon Joseph Hurlock publishes his A Practical Treatise upon Dentition, or The breeding of teeth in children in London, the first treatise in English on dentition.

** A treatise upon wines, translated from the French by John H. Sargent, Printed by John H. Sargent, 1811, 166 p.

The more important are: Ordo Temporum, a treatise on the chronology of Scripture, in which he enters upon speculations regarding the end of the world, and an Exposition of the Apocalypse which enjoyed for a time great popularity in Germany, and was translated into several languages.

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

A treatise entitled The Atonement ; its Reality, Completeness and Extent ( 1861 ) was based upon a smaller work which first appeared in 1845.

Being a review, in five letters, of the new theory of Professor Lumsden, as advocated in his treatise entitled, " Infant baptism: its nature and objects.

The Anticlaudianus, a treatise on morals as allegory, the form of which recalls the pamphlet of Claudian against Rufinus, is agreeably versified and relatively pure in its latinity.

This rule is completed in his treatise, Ars catholicae fidei, as follows: Theology itself may be demonstrated by reason.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

On the Soul ( De anima ) is a treatise on the soul written along the lines suggested by Aristotle in his own De anima.

On Fate is a treatise in which Alexander argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity.

This treatise is not mentioned in surviving Greek sources, but it enjoyed great popularity in the Muslim world, and a large number of copies have survived.

He was also an accomplished astronomer ; he lectured on Ptolemy and is known to have written a treatise on the astrolabe.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.

Ammonius Grammaticus is the supposed author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn ( περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων, On the Differences of Synonymous Expressions ), of whom nothing is known.

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

) In the sense used here it is first defined in 1704 by Mathieu de la Porte in his treatise "" as a consideration of different exchange rates to recognize the most profitable places of issuance and settlement for a bill of exchange ("".

His works on ascetism, include the aforementioned Life of St. Anthony, as well as a Discourse on Virginity, a short work on Love and Self-Control, and a treatise On Sickness and Health which is only preserved in fragments.

Below is the list of the ten bhūmis and their descriptions according to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, a treatise by Gampopa, an influential teacher of the Tibetan Kagyu school.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

The next definitive historical treatise on the common law is Commentaries on the Laws of England, written by Sir William Blackstone and first published in 1765-1769.

A detailed description of the gastraphetes, along with a drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.

A detailed description of the gastraphetes, or the “ belly-bow ”, along with a watercolor drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.

Besides the great trilogy, Clement's only other extant work is the treatise Salvation for the rich.

The Zohar, which was written in the 13th century, is generally held as the most important esoteric treatise of the Jews.

Zvelebil in his earlier treatise ( Zvelebil 1975: p53 ) states, " It is obvious that the Sanskrit, Pali damila, and Prakrit are all etymologically connected with " and further remarks " The r in > is a hypercorrect insertion, cf.