Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1A Strahan, 1825 - Law |
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... felony , without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the company of persons who call themselves , or are called , Egyptians § . ( 1 ) Ir is true , that these outrageous penalties , being seldom or never inflicted , are ...
... felony , without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the company of persons who call themselves , or are called , Egyptians § . ( 1 ) Ir is true , that these outrageous penalties , being seldom or never inflicted , are ...
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... felony ; for then a felonious dis- cretion is almost an impossibility in nature : but at eight years old he may be guilty of felony . Also , under fourteen , though an infant shall be prima facie adjudged to be doli incapax ; yet if it ...
... felony ; for then a felonious dis- cretion is almost an impossibility in nature : but at eight years old he may be guilty of felony . Also , under fourteen , though an infant shall be prima facie adjudged to be doli incapax ; yet if it ...
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... felony ' within clergy , the husband would have escaped , and the wife suffered , as she never could have the benefit of clergy , —and that she was acquitted to prevent that hardship ; but as there was no clergy in misdemesnors , and ...
... felony ' within clergy , the husband would have escaped , and the wife suffered , as she never could have the benefit of clergy , —and that she was acquitted to prevent that hardship ; but as there was no clergy in misdemesnors , and ...
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... felony , there are no accessories either before or after the fact ; but all persons concerned therein , if guilty at all , are principals : the same rule holding with regard to the highest and lowest offences , though upon different rea ...
... felony , there are no accessories either before or after the fact ; but all persons concerned therein , if guilty at all , are principals : the same rule holding with regard to the highest and lowest offences , though upon different rea ...
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... felony to have been committed , receives , relieves , comforts , or assists the felon . Therefore to make an ac- cessory ex post facto , it is , in the first place , requisite that he knows of the felony committed ' . In the next place ...
... felony to have been committed , receives , relieves , comforts , or assists the felon . Therefore to make an ac- cessory ex post facto , it is , in the first place , requisite that he knows of the felony committed ' . In the next place ...
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Page 151 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press, but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Page 190 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 151 - But to punish, as the law does at present, any dangerous or offensive writings which when published shall on a fair and impartial trial' be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Page 377 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void; 13.
Page 81 - Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm...
Page 191 - When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied.
Page 53 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 213 - It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent.
Page 53 - RELIGION which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments...
Page 58 - ... the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England...