A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 24Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - Trials |
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... object and purpose to destroy ; and which went the length , at last , of voting , at noon - day , a determination not only to watch the proceedings of the parliament , but if the parliament dared to do any one of a variety of acts which ...
... object and purpose to destroy ; and which went the length , at last , of voting , at noon - day , a determination not only to watch the proceedings of the parliament , but if the parliament dared to do any one of a variety of acts which ...
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... object to his admissibility upon that ground , words on this subject , as being the senior it is the right only of the witness himself to judge ( now present ) of the court of justiciary , object ; and if he does object , then the duty ...
... object to his admissibility upon that ground , words on this subject , as being the senior it is the right only of the witness himself to judge ( now present ) of the court of justiciary , object ; and if he does object , then the duty ...
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... object for which we are contend- ing , and of the difficulties we may expect from those whose present interests render them hostile to the welfare of their country . " The opposition of such persons is no small argument for the goodness ...
... object for which we are contend- ing , and of the difficulties we may expect from those whose present interests render them hostile to the welfare of their country . " The opposition of such persons is no small argument for the goodness ...
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... object must be , to weigh , with the most cautious deliberation , the nature of the overt acts , and judge how far they are such as carry a conviction to the mind of a jury , of the wicked and traitorous purpose in the per- son accused ...
... object must be , to weigh , with the most cautious deliberation , the nature of the overt acts , and judge how far they are such as carry a conviction to the mind of a jury , of the wicked and traitorous purpose in the per- son accused ...
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... object in view is clearly and certainly to affect the person of the king . Without evi- dence of such certain and determinate object , it must be unjust to suppose a traitorous pur- pose , or to hold , as overt acts , facts and cir ...
... object in view is clearly and certainly to affect the person of the king . Without evi- dence of such certain and determinate object , it must be unjust to suppose a traitorous pur- pose , or to hold , as overt acts , facts and cir ...
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Page 249 - Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be provably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition.
Page 45 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
Page 503 - Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual; and a Nation has at all times an inherent, indefeasible right to abolish any form of Government it finds inconvenient, and to establish such as accords with its interest, disposition, and happiness.
Page 249 - And because that many other like cases of treason may happen in time to come, which a man cannot think or declare at this present time; it is accorded, that if any other case, supposed treason, which is not above specified, doth happen before any justices, the justices shall tarry without any going to judgment of the treason, till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his Parliament...
Page 875 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 221 - ... it is accorded, that if any other case supposed treason which is not above specified, doth happen before any justices, the justices shall tarry without any going to judgment of the treason, till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his parliament, whether it ought to be judged treason or other felony.
Page 45 - A Freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault; and for a great fault after the greatness thereof, saving to him his contenement; and a Merchant likewise, saving to him his Merchandise; and any other's villain than ours shall be likewise amerced, saving his wainage, if he falls into our mercy. And none of the said amerciaments shall be assessed, but by the oath of honest and lawful men of the vicinage.
Page 287 - Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office, which any child or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king, requires only the animal figure of a man — a sort of breathing automaton.
Page 923 - It was soon discovered, that the forms of a free, and the ends of an arbitrary government, were things not altogether incompatible.
Page 503 - All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.