... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered... Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen - Page 486by Francis Plowden - 1792 - 620 pagesFull view - About this book
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