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And the trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henry VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning...

The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year - Page 355
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Westminster Hall: Or Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench ...

Law - 1825 - 938 pages

...civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for the beginning thereof they erected a rack of torture, which was called in derision, the duke of...daughter, and still remains in the Tower of London." In the reign of Edward IV'. however, an instance occurs of the judicial employment of the rack. Sir...

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