Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 4T. Cadell and J. Butterworth, 1825 - Law |
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... enacting of penalties , to which a whole nation shall be subject , ought not to be left as a matter of indifference to the passions or interests of a few , who upon temporary motives may prefer or support such a bill ; but be calmly and ...
... enacting of penalties , to which a whole nation shall be subject , ought not to be left as a matter of indifference to the passions or interests of a few , who upon temporary motives may prefer or support such a bill ; but be calmly and ...
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... enacted by statute 37 Edw . III . ch . 18. that such as preferred any suggestions to the king's great council should put in sureties of taliation ; that is , to incur the same pain that the other should have had , in case the suggestion ...
... enacted by statute 37 Edw . III . ch . 18. that such as preferred any suggestions to the king's great council should put in sureties of taliation ; that is , to incur the same pain that the other should have had , in case the suggestion ...
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... enacted , that if a person , being compos mentis , should commit high treason , and after fall into madness , he might be tried in his absence , and should suffer death , as if he were of perfect memory . But this savage and inhuman law ...
... enacted , that if a person , being compos mentis , should commit high treason , and after fall into madness , he might be tried in his absence , and should suffer death , as if he were of perfect memory . But this savage and inhuman law ...
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... enacted , " that he who committed a crime when " drunk , should receive a double punishment ; " one for the crime itself , and the other for the ebriety which prompted him to commit it . The Roman law indeed made great allowances for ...
... enacted , " that he who committed a crime when " drunk , should receive a double punishment ; " one for the crime itself , and the other for the ebriety which prompted him to commit it . The Roman law indeed made great allowances for ...
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... enacted that in all cases in which accessories before the fact to any grand larceny , are by the law within benefit ... enacts that all accessories before the fact to burglary , robbery , or grand larceny , may be prosecuted for a ...
... enacted that in all cases in which accessories before the fact to any grand larceny , are by the law within benefit ... enacts that all accessories before the fact to burglary , robbery , or grand larceny , may be prosecuted for a ...
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Page 149 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences (of his own temerity.
Page 150 - But to punish, as the law does at present, any dangerous or offensive writings which when published shall on a fair and impartial trial' be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
Page 187 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 50 - RELIGION which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments...
Page 188 - When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied.
Page 210 - It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent.
Page 57 - ... the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page 131 - Eliz. c. 2., to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. 12. MAINTENANCE is an offence that bears a near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that 135 ] no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it • : a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses w.
Page 243 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right