The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, 23. köideButterworths, 1867 |
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... jurymen who have been tampered with before going into the box- the award of arbitrators whose power has a corrupt inception- the acts of trustees whose fiduciary character has been acquired by means of an underhand bargain : —and let ...
... jurymen who have been tampered with before going into the box- the award of arbitrators whose power has a corrupt inception- the acts of trustees whose fiduciary character has been acquired by means of an underhand bargain : —and let ...
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... jurymen : so that we hence see how at that time the hommes de fief , or ' men of the fief , ' were called peers , and those peers were juges or jurymen . These were the same as are called in the laws of the Confessor , pers de la tenure ...
... jurymen : so that we hence see how at that time the hommes de fief , or ' men of the fief , ' were called peers , and those peers were juges or jurymen . These were the same as are called in the laws of the Confessor , pers de la tenure ...
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... now and then the judges were increased to fifteen hundred , and even to two thousand . It will be perceived that these courts were in reality composed of jurymen , every 196 Preservation and Amendment of Trial by Jury .
... now and then the judges were increased to fifteen hundred , and even to two thousand . It will be perceived that these courts were in reality composed of jurymen , every 196 Preservation and Amendment of Trial by Jury .
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Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence. these courts were in reality composed of jurymen , every free citizen being ... juryman , in a legal sense , is one of those twenty- four or twelve men who are sworn to deliver truth upon such ...
Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence. these courts were in reality composed of jurymen , every free citizen being ... juryman , in a legal sense , is one of those twenty- four or twelve men who are sworn to deliver truth upon such ...
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... jury men , whose minds would be less fatigued . Then again , there is the responsibility . Twelve men who can share ... juryman have in all cases the same clear views of the causes ? -would he discriminate with the same accuracy ? -would ...
... jury men , whose minds would be less fatigued . Then again , there is the responsibility . Twelve men who can share ... juryman have in all cases the same clear views of the causes ? -would he discriminate with the same accuracy ? -would ...
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Page 221 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 135 - ... a counsel can maintain no action for his fees; which are given, not as locatio vel conductio, but as quiddam honorarium; not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand without doing wrong to his reputation...
Page 211 - The discretion of a Judge is the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper and passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is every vice, folly and passion to which human nature is liable.
Page 38 - Names, nor for omitting to state the Time at which the Offence was committed, in any Case where Time is not of the Essence of the Offence, nor for stating the Time imperfectly, nor for stating the Offence to have been committed on a Day subsequent to the finding of the Indictment or...
Page 231 - Secondly, This indulged Law was only to extend to Members of the Army, or to those of the opposite Army, and never was so much indulged as intended to be (executed or) exercised upon others...
Page 231 - The necessity of order and discipline in an army is the only thing which can give it countenance; and therefore it ought not to be permitted in time of peace, when the king's courts are open for all persons to receive justice according to the laws of the land.
Page 313 - Provided always that the court shall not have cognizance of any action of ejectment, or in which the title to any corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments, or to any toll, fair, market, or franchise, shall be in question...
Page 284 - Ireland whereon may depend in any Degree the Allegiance of any Person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or the Sovereignty or Dominion of the said Crown over any Part of the said Territories.
Page 30 - Society; being all to be used in evidence against both and each of you the said William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, at your trial, will, for that purpose, be in due time lodged in the hands of the clerk of the High Court...
Page 289 - I cannot see why one freeman should be used worse than another, merely upon account of his complexion.