 By this statute it is enacted that if any person shall of malice aforethought and by lying in wait unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue, put out an eye, slit the nose, cut off a nose or lip, or cut off or disable any limb or member, of any other person,...  A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown - Page 394by Edward Hyde East - 1806 - 1126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Walter Williams - Judges - 1808 - 906 pages
...Coventry Act, being occasioned by an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge (as was supposed) for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament: by which statute it is enacted, That if any person on purpose and of malice forethought, and by lying... | |
 | Horse racing - 1809 - 420 pages
...was occasioned by an assault committed on Sir John Coventry iu the street, and slitting up his nose, in revenge, as was supposed, for some obnoxious words uttered by him in Parliament. On this statute, Mr.^ Coke, a Gentleman of Suffolk, and one Woodburn, a labourer, were indicted in... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...for fome obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. It enafts that if any perfon fhal], on purpofe and of malice forethought, by laying in wait, unlawfully cut out or difable the tongue, put out an eye, flit the nofc, cut oTF a nofe or lip, or cut off or difable any... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - Criminal law - 1819 - 726 pages
...Offence in the name of a Fine. 37 H. 8. c. 6. The Statute 22, 23 Car. 2. c. 1 . (commonly called the Coventry Act, from the Circumstance of its having...some obnoxious words uttered by him in Parliament), enacts, (s. 7.) that if any person or persons on purpose and of malice forethought, and by lying in... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1820 - 834 pages
...but only with fine and imprisonment. But now by stat. 22 & 23 C. 2. c. I. § 7. (commonly called the Coventry act, from the circumstance of its having passed on occasion of Sir John Coventry's being assaulted in the street, and his nose slit, by persons who lay in wait for... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - Medical jurisprudence - 1825 - 696 pages
...from its being occasioned by an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge (as was supposed) for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. This ordains, that if any man shall, of malice aforethought, and by lying in wait, unlawfully cut out,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...Coventry act; being occasioned by an assault on sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge (as was supposed) for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. By this statute it is enacted, that if any person shall of malice aforethought, and by lying in wait,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...Coventry act; being occasioned by an assault on sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge (as was supposed) for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. By this statute it is enacted, that if any person shall of malice aforethought, and by lying in wait,... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 788 pages
...maiming a violent attack upon Sir John Coventry in the street, and slit- made felony ting his nose, in revenge, (as was supposed) for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament, (r) The seventh section enacts, " that if any person or persons, on purpose and of malice " forethought,... | |
 | William Robinson - Justices of the peace - 1827 - 692 pages
...may serve his king and country when occasion shall be offered. 1 Haw. c. 44. s. 1. 1 East's PC 393. If any person or persons shall on purpose and of malice forethought, by lying in wait, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue, put out an eye, slit the nose or lip, or cut... | |
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