The Whole Law Relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice of the Peace ...W. Clarke, 1808 - 1172 pages |
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... Hawk . c . 51 . And in the case of the earl of Ferrers it was resolved , by all the judges , that if a peer be convicted of murder , before the lords in parliament , and the day appointed by them for execution . pursuant to the statute ...
... Hawk . c . 51 . And in the case of the earl of Ferrers it was resolved , by all the judges , that if a peer be convicted of murder , before the lords in parliament , and the day appointed by them for execution . pursuant to the statute ...
Page 312
... Hawk . c . 51 . S. 9 . But a woman cannot demand such respite of execution , by reason of her being quick with child more than once . 2 Hawk , c . 51. s . 10 . Nor can a woman have advantage from being found with child , unless she be ...
... Hawk . c . 51 . S. 9 . But a woman cannot demand such respite of execution , by reason of her being quick with child more than once . 2 Hawk , c . 51. s . 10 . Nor can a woman have advantage from being found with child , unless she be ...
Page 316
... Hawk . e . 1. s . 3 . Or if an infant within the years of discretion be convicted of a capital of . fence , the judges will in prudence respite the execution in order to get a pardon . 1 Hawk . c . 1. s . 8 . What it is . EXTORTION ...
... Hawk . e . 1. s . 3 . Or if an infant within the years of discretion be convicted of a capital of . fence , the judges will in prudence respite the execution in order to get a pardon . 1 Hawk . c . 1. s . 8 . What it is . EXTORTION ...
Page 317
... Hawk . c . 68. s . 2 . But the stated and known fees allowed by the courts of jus- tice to their respective officers for their labour and trouble , are not restrained by the common law , or by the above statute , and therefore such fees ...
... Hawk . c . 68. s . 2 . But the stated and known fees allowed by the courts of jus- tice to their respective officers for their labour and trouble , are not restrained by the common law , or by the above statute , and therefore such fees ...
Page 318
... Hawk . c . 67. § . 2 . " that And justices of peace do , in their oath of office , swear they will not take any thing for doing the business of their of- fice , but the fees and allowances accustomed and limited by the statute . " At ...
... Hawk . c . 67. § . 2 . " that And justices of peace do , in their oath of office , swear they will not take any thing for doing the business of their of- fice , but the fees and allowances accustomed and limited by the statute . " At ...
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Page 833 - God, the author of it ; and as the suicide is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the Almighty, and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for ; the other temporal, against the king, who hath an interest in the preservation of all his subjects...
Page 380 - ... offices, or any of the buildings erected therein or belonging thereto; or any timber or materials there placed, for building, repairing, or fitting out of ships, or vessels, or any of his majesty's military, naval, or victualling stores, or other ammunition of war, or any place or places, where any such military, naval, or victualling stores, or other ammunition of war, is, are, or shall be kept, placed, or deposited...
Page 845 - As when a park-keeper tied a boy, that was stealing wood, to a horse's tail, and dragged him along the park; when a master corrected his servant with an iron bar, and a schoolmaster stamped on his scholar's belly, so that each of the sufferers died, these were justly held to be murders, because, the correction being excessive, and such as could not proceed but from a bad heart, it was equivalent to a deliberate...
Page 418 - that if any person or persons shall, on purpose and of malice aforethought, by laying in wait, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue, put out an eye, slit the nose, cut off the nose or lip, or cut off or disable any limb or member of any subject ; with intention in so doing to maim or disfigure...
Page 342 - ... if need be, the escape of those who are more immediately engaged. They are all, provided the fact be committed, in the eye of the law present at it; for it was made a common cause with them, each man operated in his station at one and the same instant towards the same common end; and the part each man took tended to give countenance, encouragement and protection to the whole gang, and to insure the success of their common enterprise.
Page 382 - ... to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 338 - Offender shall be deemed guilty of Felony, of the same Nature and in the same Degree and punishable in the same Manner as if he had stolen any Chattel of like Value with the Share, Interest, or Deposit to which the Security so stolen may relate, or with the Money due on the Security so stolen or secured thereby and remaining unsatisfied...
Page 705 - ... or warrant, out of some court that hath jurisdiction of criminal matters, or by some warrant signed and sealed with the hand and seal of any of the said justices or barons, or some justice or justices of the peace, for such matters or offences for the which by the law the prisoner is not bailable.
Page 421 - ... to seduce any person or persons serving in his Majesty's forces by sea or land from his or their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite or stir up any such person or persons to commit any act of mutiny, or to make or endeavour to make any mutinous assembly, or to commit any traitorous or mutinous practice whatsoever...
Page 428 - It is true," says this learned judge (j), "that rape is a [*215] most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easy to be made, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent.