Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1A Strahan, 1825 - Law |
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... justice , the feelings of humanity , and the indelible rights of mankind : though it sometimes ( provided there be no transgression of See Vol . I. p . 268 . Sir Michael Foster , pref . to rep . these external boundaries ) may be ...
... justice , the feelings of humanity , and the indelible rights of mankind : though it sometimes ( provided there be no transgression of See Vol . I. p . 268 . Sir Michael Foster , pref . to rep . these external boundaries ) may be ...
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... justice and propriety depend ) of inflicting them upon all occasions when other ex- pedients fail . I fear this reasoning would extend a great deal too far . For instance , the damage done to our public roads by loaded waggons is ...
... justice and propriety depend ) of inflicting them upon all occasions when other ex- pedients fail . I fear this reasoning would extend a great deal too far . For instance , the damage done to our public roads by loaded waggons is ...
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... justice as are open and public : or , lastly , by depriving the party injuring of the [ 12 ] power to do future mischief ; which is effected by either put- ting him to death , or condemning him to perpetual confine- ment , slavery , or ...
... justice as are open and public : or , lastly , by depriving the party injuring of the [ 12 ] power to do future mischief ; which is effected by either put- ting him to death , or condemning him to perpetual confine- ment , slavery , or ...
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... justice . If a no- bleman strikes a peasant , all mankind will see , that if a court of justice awards a return of the blow , it is more than a just compensation . ( 5 ) On the other hand , retaliation may , some- times , be too easy a ...
... justice . If a no- bleman strikes a peasant , all mankind will see , that if a court of justice awards a return of the blow , it is more than a just compensation . ( 5 ) On the other hand , retaliation may , some- times , be too easy a ...
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... justice overtakes him , he deems himself peculiarly unfortunate , in falling at last a sacri- fice to those laws , which long impunity has taught him to contemn . ( 9 ) b See Ruffhead's index to the statutes ( tit . Felony ) , and the ...
... justice overtakes him , he deems himself peculiarly unfortunate , in falling at last a sacri- fice to those laws , which long impunity has taught him to contemn . ( 9 ) b See Ruffhead's index to the statutes ( tit . Felony ) , and the ...
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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...