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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... principles very different from what I was acquainted with ; I consi- dered them , and thought them persons that meant to overturn the constitution . I went as a spectator . Mr. Clerk , counsel for the Defendant . - Was it at the first ...
... principles very different from what I was acquainted with ; I consi- dered them , and thought them persons that meant to overturn the constitution . I went as a spectator . Mr. Clerk , counsel for the Defendant . - Was it at the first ...
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... principles of com- mon reason and law , will not oblige a witness to give answers to criminate himself ; but there is nothing to prevent his doing it ; nor is it for the prisoner's counsel to make that objection : the lord advocate has ...
... principles of com- mon reason and law , will not oblige a witness to give answers to criminate himself ; but there is nothing to prevent his doing it ; nor is it for the prisoner's counsel to make that objection : the lord advocate has ...
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... principles of the so- ciety , namely , the obtaining Annual parlia- ments , and Universal Suffrage , by rational and lawful means . 2d , " He is directed to support the opinion , that representatives in parliament ought to be paid by ...
... principles of the so- ciety , namely , the obtaining Annual parlia- ments , and Universal Suffrage , by rational and lawful means . 2d , " He is directed to support the opinion , that representatives in parliament ought to be paid by ...
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... principles " ? -I am not sure . Did you ever see that paper ? -It was " Fun- damental principles . ” . Where did you see it ? -It came to the so- ciety one night . You saw such a paper in the society , but do not know where it came from ...
... principles " ? -I am not sure . Did you ever see that paper ? -It was " Fun- damental principles . ” . Where did you see it ? -It came to the so- ciety one night . You saw such a paper in the society , but do not know where it came from ...
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... principles which have guided courts of justice on determining what were overt acts of this species of treason ; and you will hear the cases which have been de- termined , and which have been put as illus- trations of these principles ...
... principles which have guided courts of justice on determining what were overt acts of this species of treason ; and you will hear the cases which have been de- termined , and which have been put as illus- trations of these principles ...
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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.