| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 810 pages
...against any persons for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or hi- ,' chantment. But the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in the occult science?, is (0 Cod. 1. 9, c. 18. (o) Voltaire Sied, fxnrij XIV. eh. M. Mod. tTn. (k) Exod. ixii 18.... | |
| John Timbs - Common fallacies - 1869 - 280 pages
...the fact at the gallows. — Commentaries, Christian's edition, book iv. chap. 4. But the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...stolen goods by skill in the occult sciences, is still punished with a year's imprisonment ; as it was formerly by standing four times in the pillory. In... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...which is easily practised upon, appeal's from penal laws, both in England and our own country, against pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in occult science and the like. It is still common to believe in dreams and other omens, and there are,... | |
| John Timbs - Law - 1873 - 170 pages
...enchantment, or conjuration ; or for charging another with any such offence. But by the same statute persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods, by skill in any occult or crafty science, are punishable by imprisonment ; and by 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, persons using... | |
| Howard Paul, John Timbs, Percy Fitzgerald - Anecdotes - 1873 - 456 pages
...enchantment, or conjuration ; or for charging another with any such offence. But by the same statute persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods, by skill in any occult or crafty science, are punishable by imprisonment ; and by 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, persons using... | |
| A. H. Dana - Ethics - 1873 - 320 pages
...which is easily practised upon, appears from penal laws, both in England and our own country, against pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in occult science and the like. It is still common to believe in dreams and other omens, * 4 Black's Cora.,... | |
| Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...enchantment, or conjuration; or for charging another with any such offence (i).] But, by the same statute, persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in any occult or crafty science — were made punishable by imprisonment : and by 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, s.... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 778 pages
...against any persons for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or enchantment. But the misdemeanour of persona pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover...occult sciences, is still deservedly punished with a year's imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory." VIL A seventh species of offenders in... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 658 pages
...carried on against any persons for conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, or inchantment. But the misdemeanor of persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes,...occult sciences, is still deservedly punished with a year's imprisonment, and standing four times in the pillory. (9) VII. A seventh species of offenders... | |
| Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - Criminal law - 1881 - 678 pages
...that prosecutions for such practices should cease ; at the same time making punishable by imprisonment persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods by skill in any occult or crafty science (o). Palmistry, &c. By a later statute, persons using any subtle craft,... | |
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