It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant... Annual Report - Page 654by American Historical Association - 1896Full view - About this book
| William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inflant death. So dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifning, increafes the number of offenders. * -jt... | |
| Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of inll.uit death.— So 4 • dreadful a6o dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifhing, increafcs the number... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inftant death. So dreadful a lift, infteadof diminiming, incrcafes the number of offenders. The injured,... | |
| 1821 - 608 pages
...to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number <>f offenders. The... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament tp be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' (4 Blackstone, Com. 18.) When we come to enquire into the nature of the crimes of which... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death;" and the catalogue has beean sine. e enlarged I- i . . . -t .- ;-.,;..!,.. The apology... | |
| 1811 - 538 pages
...commit, no leas than one hundred and i\ii/ have been de~ clared, by act of parliament, to be felony without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be •worthy of instant Jeatk." The number of capital punishments has been considerably augmented ,-ince the publication... | |
| Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death *." When we come to enquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." The same writer observes, that were even a committee appointed but once in an hundred... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 602 pages
...to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured,... | |
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