 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1848 - 450 pages
...without encroachment, the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts. by the country. From this principle (except as to that preposterous...and a disregard of the just limits of their trust! 130. FRANK PLEDGE. Edit. 1826, vol. ii. p. 408. Edit. 1S41, vol. ii. p. 78. SIR F. PALGRAVE, who does... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1848 - 450 pages
...maintained, without encroachment, the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country. From this principle (except as to that preposterous...and a disregard of the just limits of their trust! 139. FRANK PLEDGE. Edit. 1826, »ol. ii. p. 408. Edit. 1841, vol. ii. p. 78. SIR F. PALGRAVE, who does... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1848 - 82 pages
...wish respecting our grand principle of trial of facts by the country, in which I earnestly concur. " From this " principle (except as to that preposterous...may we never swerve — may we never be compelled, or wish, to swerve — " by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, and a disregard of the just limits... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1848 - 76 pages
...wish respecting our grand principle of trial of facts by the country, in which I earnestly concur. " From this " principle (except as to that preposterous...may we never swerve — may we never be compelled, or wish, to swerve — " by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, and a disregard of the just limits... | |
 | William Forsyth - Jury - 1852 - 506 pages
...Hallam, speaking of ' the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country,' says, 'From this principle (except as to that preposterous...swerve — by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, and 1 In all the old Scandinavian tribunals the opinion of the majority prevailed. Sed si illi xu in unum... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 698 pages
...maintained, without encroachment, the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country. From this principle (except as to that preposterous...and a disregard of the just limits of their trust ! NOTE IX. Page 291. THE nature of both tenures has been perspicuously illustrated by Mr. Allen, in... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1853 - 446 pages
...maintained, without encroachment, the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country. From this principle (except as to that preposterous...and a disregard of the just limits of their trust! NOTE IX. Page 291. THE nature of both tenures has been perspicuously illustrated by Mr. Allen, in his... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1853 - 576 pages
...Middle Ages of " the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country," says, " From this principle (except as to that preposterous...swerve — by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, a disregard of the just limits of their trusts !" To these latter words I shall only add, that the... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1853 - 588 pages
...Middle Ages of " the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country," says, " from this principle (except as to that preposterous...barbarism, the requirement of unanimity) may we never swerve—may we never be compelled in wish to swerve—by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, a disregard... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1882 - 948 pages
...maintained without encroachment the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country. From this principle (except as to that preposterous...and a disregard of the just limits of their trust ! ' DISCUSSION. Mr. WILLIAM GRIFFITH (London) said before proposing to abolish snch a valuable institution... | |
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From this principle (except as to that preposterous relic of barbarism, the requirement of unanimity) may we never swerve — may we never be compelled, in wish, to swerve — by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, and a disregard of the just limits... 
