| 1822 - 734 pages
...enchantment. But the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, to tell for. tunes, or to discover stolen goods by skill in the occult sciences,...imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory. Blackstone's Comment, b. 4, c. 4, f fi. It may be necessary to add, that there is still un repealed... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...witchcraft, conjuration, inchantment, or sorcery. As to which it is enacted by !> Geo. II. c. 5. that persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...discover stolen goods by skill in the occult sciences, shall be punished with a year's imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory. VIF. A seventh... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...curried on against any persons for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment. But the misdemesnor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory. (11) VII. A SEvENTH species of offenders in this class are all religious impostors: such as falsely... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...carried on against any persons for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment. But the misdemesnor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory. (11) VII. A SEVENTH species of offenders in this class are all religious impostors: such as falsely... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...against which it is enacted, by tlie 9 Gco. II. c. 5. that any person pretending to use witcheraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in the occult sciences, shall be punished with a year's imprisonment, and be liable to be fined at the discretion of the court.... | |
| Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. 4 HI. C. 62. By statute 9 Geo. II. c. 5, persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...discover stolen goods, by skill in the occult sciences, are guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable with a year's imprisonment, and with the pillory; but the... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...on against any person for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment (18). But the misdemesnor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory (19). VII. A seventh species of offenders in this class are all Rc!|{5[lr°ll£nim' religious impostors... | |
| John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...future be carried on against any person fur conjuration, Witchcraft, Sorcery, or enchantment. Howevever, the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use Witchcraft,...deservedly punished with a. year's imprisonment, and till recently by standing four times in the pillory. Thus the Witch Act, a disgrace to the Code of... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1842 - 312 pages
...the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use Witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods hy skill in the occult sciences, is still deservedly punished with a year's imprisonment, and till recently hy standing four times in the pillory. (2") See Blackstone's " Commentaries," vol. iv.... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...against any person for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment. However, the misdemeanour of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...deservedly punished with a year's imprisonment, and till recently hy standing four times in the pillory. Thus the Witch Act, a disgrace to the code of... | |
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