A Treatise on Criminal Pleading: With Precedents of Indictments, Special Pleas, &c., Adapted to Practice, Volume 2 |
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A Treatise on Criminal Pleading: With Precedents of Indictments, Special ... Thomas Starkie No preview available - 2020 |
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Page 655 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 533 - In every indictment for wilful and corrupt perjury it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged. upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom, the oath was taken, (averring such court or person to have competent authority to administer the same...
Page 376 - 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 669 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 591 - Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King...
Page 634 - Two of the Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King...
Page 138 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Page 701 - Loss of their Goods to the great damage and common Nuisance of all the Liege Subjects of our said Lord the King...
Page 690 - ... certain persons as well men as women, of evil name and fame, and of dishonest conversation, to frequent and come together...
Page 650 - In contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.