Writings and Speeches, Volume 11Little Brown and Company, 1901 - Great Britain |
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accusation act of Parliament admitted answer appears appointed arbitrary power arzee assert authority Benares Bristow Britain called cause charge Cheyt Sing Colonel Hannay Committee Company conduct considered corruption coun Council counsel Court of Directors crimes criminal declared defence Durbege Sing duty Earl Esquire Gentoo give guilty Hastings's honor House of Commons House of Lords impeachment India indictment inferior courts Judges judgment judicial jury justice Khân lacs letter Lord Cornwallis Lord High Steward Lord Strafford Lordships Managers manner Markham matter ment Nabob Naib nature never object observe occasion opinion oppression Oude Parlia parties peculation Peers person precedents presumption prince principles prisoner prisoner's proceed proceedings produced proof proper prove punishment purgunnah question Rajah reason rebellion received Resident revenue ruin says sovereign suffer Sujah Dowlah supposed things tion trial Vizier Warren Hastings Westminster Hall whole witnesses
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Page 42 - Committee conceives that the English jurisprudence has not any other sure foundation, nor, consequently, the lives and properties of the subject any sure hold, but in the maxims, rules, and principles, and juridical traditionary line of decisions contained in the notes taken, and from time to time published, (mostly under the sanction of the Judges,) called Reports.
Page 128 - And the Lords declared, that they have power enough to proceed to trial, though the King should not name an High Steward." On the same day, " it is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the office of...
Page 223 - There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity : — the law of nature and of nations.
Page 44 - To give judgment privately is to put an end to reports ; and to put an end to reports is to put an end to the law of England.
Page 13 - Parliaments , that all weighty matters in any Parliament moved, concerning the peers of the realm, or Commons in Parliament assembled, ought to be determined, adjudged, and discussed, by the course of the Parliament, and not by the Civil Law, nor yet by the common laws of this realm used in more inferior courts.
Page 140 - Councillors, (constituted and appointed the GovernorGeneral and Council of the said United Company's Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, by an act of Parliament passed in the last session, intituled, "An act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe,") of the 29th of March, 1774, Par.
Page 221 - The traveller, either with or without merchandise, becomes the immediate care of the government, which allots him guards, without any expense, to conduct him from stage to stage; and these are...
Page 171 - Who is there, that, upon hearing this name, does not instantly recognize everything of genius the most profound, everything of literature the most extensive, everything of discovery the most penetrating, everything of observation on human life the most distinguishing and refined?
Page 151 - Whenever an occasion shall be regularly given to maintain everything of substance in that paper, I shall be ready to meet the proudest name for ability, learning, or rank that this kingdom contains, upon that subject. Do I say this from any confidence in myself? Far from it. It is from my confidence in our cause, and in the ability, the learning, and the constitutional...
Page 16 - And afterwards to this resolution: 'That, by the law and usage of Parliament in prosecutions for high crimes and misdemeanors by writing or speaking, the particular words supposed to be criminal are not necessary to be expressly specified in such impeachment.' So that, in their Lordships...