A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1. köideStevens and sons, limited, 1896 - 844 pages |
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... doubt , the jurisdiction of the common law ought to be preferred . ' ( i ) A bay within headlands may be within the Admiralty jurisdiction . Where a murder was committed in Roundstone Bay , and it appeared that the place in question was ...
... doubt , the jurisdiction of the common law ought to be preferred . ' ( i ) A bay within headlands may be within the Admiralty jurisdiction . Where a murder was committed in Roundstone Bay , and it appeared that the place in question was ...
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... doubt correctly , because , in the eye of the law of England they were offences of the same nature as if they had been committed on land in England , yet it may well be doubted whether that be suffi- cient in the case of newly created ...
... doubt correctly , because , in the eye of the law of England they were offences of the same nature as if they had been committed on land in England , yet it may well be doubted whether that be suffi- cient in the case of newly created ...
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... doubt . The Court at Exeter would not have had jurisdiction before the 18 & 19 Vict . c . 91 , s . 21 ; but that statute is quite conclusive on the subject , and seems to have been passed for the purpose of removing any doubt that might ...
... doubt . The Court at Exeter would not have had jurisdiction before the 18 & 19 Vict . c . 91 , s . 21 ; but that statute is quite conclusive on the subject , and seems to have been passed for the purpose of removing any doubt that might ...
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... doubts on the point ; but in R. v . James , 7 C. & P. 553 , Patteson , J. , had expressed an opinion that either the one mode or the other might be adopted . And it should seem that there is no doubt that an indictment laying prop- erty ...
... doubts on the point ; but in R. v . James , 7 C. & P. 553 , Patteson , J. , had expressed an opinion that either the one mode or the other might be adopted . And it should seem that there is no doubt that an indictment laying prop- erty ...
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... doubt that a pris- oner may plead as many pleas as he like , unless they be repugnant to each other ; and see ibid . s . 137 , and c . 34. C. S. G. never heard him called so . Burrough , J. , CHAP . I. ] 43 Pleas of Autrefois Convict , Etc.
... doubt that a pris- oner may plead as many pleas as he like , unless they be repugnant to each other ; and see ibid . s . 137 , and c . 34. C. S. G. never heard him called so . Burrough , J. , CHAP . I. ] 43 Pleas of Autrefois Convict , Etc.
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Page 547 - Uses violence to or intimidates such person, or his wife or children, or injures his property ; or (2) Persistently follows such other person about from place to place ; or (3) Hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof ; or (4) Watches or besets the house or other place where such person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be...
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Page 445 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, make any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve in Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 4.
Page 125 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
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Page 126 - In answer thereto, we state to your lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances supposed, cannot in strictness be asked his opinion in the terms above stated, because each of those questions involves the determination of the truth of the facts deposed to, which it is for the jury to decide ; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But, where the facts are admitted, or not disputed, and the question becomes...
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