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... persons as an " evil - doer , " who sins deliberately , because he " likes to " ; who deserves the vengeance of man ... person , not evil in disposition but liable to go wrong under stress of temptation or excitement . Or , finally , he ...
... persons as an " evil - doer , " who sins deliberately , because he " likes to " ; who deserves the vengeance of man ... person , not evil in disposition but liable to go wrong under stress of temptation or excitement . Or , finally , he ...
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... persons among the well - informed who have devoted themselves to studies in comparative jurisprudence or in the history of legislation . It is this phase especially that Dr. Hall has in- vestigated , and has set forth in the present ...
... persons among the well - informed who have devoted themselves to studies in comparative jurisprudence or in the history of legislation . It is this phase especially that Dr. Hall has in- vestigated , and has set forth in the present ...
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... person . CHAPTER XI MODERN ENGLAND . 227 230 231 235 239 240 • 241 .... 246 An era of domestic peace and material prosperity , but abundant crime ...... 249 The death penalty for even petty offences inimical to the new social life ...
... person . CHAPTER XI MODERN ENGLAND . 227 230 231 235 239 240 • 241 .... 246 An era of domestic peace and material prosperity , but abundant crime ...... 249 The death penalty for even petty offences inimical to the new social life ...
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... person who suffers it , and not the State , is conceived to be wronged . " ( Maine , p . 371. ) fellow man , not regarded as a wrong done the The distinction between tort, crime and sin Contents PAGE The forest laws PAGE.
... person who suffers it , and not the State , is conceived to be wronged . " ( Maine , p . 371. ) fellow man , not regarded as a wrong done the The distinction between tort, crime and sin Contents PAGE The forest laws PAGE.
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... treason is enlarged ,. Martin , ii , 142 , 146 . Tregear , p . 107 . 2 * Sproat , p . 151 . ' Petroff , p . 152 . 50 Treason to protect his person , ensure him honor Crime Among Savages 49 Measurements of the antiquity of a crime.
... treason is enlarged ,. Martin , ii , 142 , 146 . Tregear , p . 107 . 2 * Sproat , p . 151 . ' Petroff , p . 152 . 50 Treason to protect his person , ensure him honor Crime Among Savages 49 Measurements of the antiquity of a crime.
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Page v - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 36 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 136 - I, then, Alfred, king, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my
Page 12 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 14 - The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals...
Page 328 - Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born, that drops into its place, And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Page 149 - The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was nothing to them; for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and abandoned. To till the ground was to plough the sea: the earth bare no corn, for the land was all laid waste by such deeds; and...
Page 393 - He who would win the name of truly great Must understand his own age and the next, And make the present ready to fulfil Its prophecy, and with the future merge Gently and peacefully, as wave with wave.