"Validity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instruments giving powers of distress are also to be registered under the Act to be of any validity against the trustees in bankruptcy ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... preparation of the manuscript for the press. Dr. MacDougal, by [viii] his publications, has introduced my results to his American colleagues, and moreover by his cultures of the mutative species of the great evening-primrose has contributed additional proof of the validity of my views, which will go far to obviate the difficulties, which are still in the way of a more universal acceptation of the theory of mutation. My work claims to be in full accord with the principles laid down by ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... is impossible not to censure so gross a blunder, if blunder that may be called, which is alike abhorrent to the truth of facts and to the validity of all good principle. The language indeed is so vague, as to admit something like a defence, under the shadow of a definition which shall restrict crimes to gross violations of public and private right; but even this would be faulty, as implying what is not the case, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... but we are presented instead with something worse than random assertion. If the writer would state a single case, with its evidence,—we should know how to deal with him. We should examine his arguments seriatim; and either refute them, or admit their validity. From such "free handling," the cause of sacred Truth can never suffer. But when, in place of argument and evidence, we have merely bluster,—what is to be said? Pity and disregard are the only reply we can bestow; ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon
... Erasures, irregular entries, at the request of the interested, change of one name for another as the legitimate owner, resulting often in persons finding their names down in the Government books as owners of property, the existence of which was unknown to them, and vice versa, cause the validity of title-deeds, issued as they are by various courts in the country, to be a fertile source of litigation, and fraudulent action.... The fact, however, that title-deeds can be set aside by verbal testimony perhaps sufficiently accounts for the ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
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