Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, Volume 15Columbia University Press, 1902 - Political science |
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... nation's criminals ....... 186 London in the Middle Ages ..... 189 CHAPTER IX TUDOR ENGLAND . A despotic monarchy supported by the people ...... 195 The crushing of the anarchic nobility by the Court of Star Chamber ........ 200 The ...
... nation's criminals ....... 186 London in the Middle Ages ..... 189 CHAPTER IX TUDOR ENGLAND . A despotic monarchy supported by the people ...... 195 The crushing of the anarchic nobility by the Court of Star Chamber ........ 200 The ...
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... nation choosing it . Wisely chosen , it is an active force driving man upward to , a better , more truly social , stage of civilization ; but the nation that persists in choosing its crimes wrongly is on the high road to degeneration ...
... nation choosing it . Wisely chosen , it is an active force driving man upward to , a better , more truly social , stage of civilization ; but the nation that persists in choosing its crimes wrongly is on the high road to degeneration ...
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... nation a larger amount of crime is punished than in a later and higher stage of social development , it is probably because actions not rightly criminal are being punished in the former time , or because degeneration , which often ...
... nation a larger amount of crime is punished than in a later and higher stage of social development , it is probably because actions not rightly criminal are being punished in the former time , or because degeneration , which often ...
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... nations we find almost no instances of punishment for this offence . The traitor has practically disap- peared from ... nation , in some future age , when even a new form of crime may not necessarily mean an increase of criminals . With ...
... nations we find almost no instances of punishment for this offence . The traitor has practically disap- peared from ... nation , in some future age , when even a new form of crime may not necessarily mean an increase of criminals . With ...
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... Nation making is the occupation of men in these early ages , and it is war that makes nations . " a Steinmetz , in a paragraph of his valuable book upon " The First Development of Punishments , " recognizes the possibil- ity that ...
... Nation making is the occupation of men in these early ages , and it is war that makes nations . " a Steinmetz , in a paragraph of his valuable book upon " The First Development of Punishments , " recognizes the possibil- ity that ...
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5-year periods actions acts adultery ancient Annual average Assize Austria benefit of clergy cent Church civilization classes common law convicted court of Star criminal law customs death penalty decrease delites despotic ecclesiastical Eliz enforced England English evidence evil felonies feudal fines forgery forms of crime France fraud growth Hallam Henry Henry VIII high treason homicide Ibid imprisonment incest indictable offences individual industrial inflicted Italy jurisdiction justice king king's legislation liberty lords Maitland and Pollock ment misdemeanors modern moral murder nation Norman NUMBER OF PERSONS offences outlawry Parliament peace penal petty police political population practically prisoners progress proportion prosecutions punished as crimes Quarter Sessions reign religious robbery royal savage serious crimes social prohibitions social punishment society Spain Star Chamber statutes Stephen strong theft tion tort TOTAL NUMBER Traill trial tribe Tudor vengeance VIII
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Page v - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 38 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 142 - I, then, Alfred, king, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my
Page 12 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 14 - The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals...
Page 247 - ... to the law. They were looked upon as good subjects at court, and as good neighbours in the country ; all the restraints and reproaches of former times being forgotten.
Page 342 - Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born, that drops into its place, And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Page 216 - Sixty-one clergymen, forty-seven laymen, and two gentlewomen suffered capital punishment for some or other of the spiritual felonies and treasons which had been lately created.
Page 248 - Uniformity, 1662, the Conventicle Act, 1664, and the Five-Mile Act, 1665, abundantly prove. The Act of Uniformity, 13 and 14 Car. II., c. iv, § 3, decreed that every beneficed minister, fellow of a college and even schoolmaster must unfeignedly agree to all the contents of the book of common prayer. About 2000 Presbyterian clergymen were deprived for non-compliance with this act, on St. Bartholemew's day, in the year 1662.
Page 228 - ... burglary, house-breaking and putting in fear, highway robbery, horse stealing, stealing from the person above the value of a shilling, rape, and abduction with intent to marry. In the case of persons who could not read, all felonies, including manslaughter, every kind of theft above the value of a shilling, and all robbery, were capital crimes.