A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 22Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1817 - Trials |
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Page 71
... heads ; I do not say whether they are enough to press them at all , but it is my duty to take care , that they should not have that offence , if it be one , to answer for , which is mine , and not theirs . We have the conduct of this ...
... heads ; I do not say whether they are enough to press them at all , but it is my duty to take care , that they should not have that offence , if it be one , to answer for , which is mine , and not theirs . We have the conduct of this ...
Page 105
... head of the office , chooses to order it , then only it becomes his official duty , and then taking upon him de facto to fulfil it , I admit he is responsible Most unquestionably , if a man takes upon himself the doing of any thing , in ...
... head of the office , chooses to order it , then only it becomes his official duty , and then taking upon him de facto to fulfil it , I admit he is responsible Most unquestionably , if a man takes upon himself the doing of any thing , in ...
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... heads , whether he is an officer , whether it is contrary to his duty , and if it be , if he is indictable . The next consideration is , the punishment , which , as my learned friend the attorney- general has stated , is better in the ...
... heads , whether he is an officer , whether it is contrary to his duty , and if it be , if he is indictable . The next consideration is , the punishment , which , as my learned friend the attorney- general has stated , is better in the ...
Page 145
... head officer has a place under the great seal , is answerable by indictment , for every fault he commits ? If that be the ruling principle , it is a strange thing we find that in no book whatever . I will tell your lordship why I ...
... head officer has a place under the great seal , is answerable by indictment , for every fault he commits ? If that be the ruling principle , it is a strange thing we find that in no book whatever . I will tell your lordship why I ...
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... head ; I think I understand it , and I think it a considerable one ; it is one thing to be the duty of an office , it is another that a party , in a particular occasion , undertakes to do it ; my objection , be it remembered , all ...
... head ; I think I understand it , and I think it a considerable one ; it is one thing to be the duty of an office , it is another that a party , in a particular occasion , undertakes to do it ; my objection , be it remembered , all ...
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Popular passages
Page 293 - ... defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
Page 307 - ... the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Page 469 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 387 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 215 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 195 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law : but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy : who art thou that judgest another?
Page 473 - ... to the great scandal and contempt of our said lord the king and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said lord the king, his crown and dignity.
Page 411 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 387 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 435 - If any ask me what a free government is, I answer that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so; and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.