 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791
...him, his reputation and fortune : on the former by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a (lake driven through his body; on the latter, by a forfeiture...reputation, or the welfare of his family, would be fome motive to reftrain him from fo defperate and wicked art act. And it is obfervable, that this forfeiture... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1817
...latter, by the forfeiture of all his goods and chattels to the King; in hopes that his care either for his own reputation, or the welfare of his family,...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act. Id. rity may mislead those, who are disposed to act upon it. He arraigns, in terms sufficiently harsh,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1823
...what he has left behind him — his reputation and fortune : Criminal Law. — Theatrical Register 550 on the former by an ignominious burial in the highway,...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act." [Dec. The general practice has hitherto been, to delay sentence as to all the convicts (with the single... | |
 | English essays - 1823
...:" that if the offender shall allege nothing sufficient in law to arrest or bar such judgment, th« all his goods and chattels to the King : hoping that...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act." A very jost and liberal view of this appalling subject has recently been taken by Parliament, as will... | |
 | William Blackstone, Vincent Wanostrocht - Constitutional law - 1823 - 845 pages
...latter, by a forfeiture of all his goods and chattels to the king : hoping that his care either for his own reputation, or the welfare of his family,...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act. The other species of criminal homicide is that of killing another man. But in this there are al>' degrees... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825
...: on the former by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body (14); on the latter, by a forfeiture of all his goods and...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act. And it is observable, that this forfeiture has relation to the time of the act done in the felon's... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825
...fortune: on the former by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body (14); on the latter, by a forfeiture of all his goods and...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act. And it is observable, that this forfeiture has relation to the time of the act done in the felon's... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1826
...forfeit lo the King ; ' hoping," says Blackstone, " that 1 his care for either his own re' putation, or the welfare of his ' family, would be some motive...restrain him from so desperate ' and wicked an act." But what is there to restrain any man, if Juries act upon the opinion of this Coroner, who sets the... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1826
...forfeit to the King ; "hoping," says Blackstone, " that "his care for either his own re" putation, or the welfare of his " family, would be some motive...restrain him from so desperate " and wicked an act." But what is there to restrain any man, if Juries act upon the opinion of this Coroner, who sets the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836
...: on the former by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body (21); on the latter by a forfeiture of all his goods and...restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act. And it is observable, that this forfeiture has relation to the time of the act done in the felon's... | |
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But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway,... 
