Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, Upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests: With Historical Introductions, and a Critical Dissertation Upon the Eloquence of the Ancients, 2. köideA. and C. Black, 1838 |
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... judges in a British court of justice , regard the trade in that light , while our own laws permitted it . But we can now assert , that this trade cannot , abstractedly speak- ing , have a legitimate existence . When I say abstractedly ...
... judges in a British court of justice , regard the trade in that light , while our own laws permitted it . But we can now assert , that this trade cannot , abstractedly speak- ing , have a legitimate existence . When I say abstractedly ...
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... judges , par- taking of the violence which inspired the planters and other slave - dealers , committed a series of errors so gross as to mock belief , and of oppressions which are unexampled in the dispensation of English justice ...
... judges , par- taking of the violence which inspired the planters and other slave - dealers , committed a series of errors so gross as to mock belief , and of oppressions which are unexampled in the dispensation of English justice ...
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... Judge who tried the prisoner . In such circumstances , he must have conducted himself with an entire regard to his professional character , to his responsibility as a judge , to his credit as a lawyer . Now , Sir , let us look at the ...
... Judge who tried the prisoner . In such circumstances , he must have conducted himself with an entire regard to his professional character , to his responsibility as a judge , to his credit as a lawyer . Now , Sir , let us look at the ...
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... judge , might sit as a military judge and a soldier ! Sir , he must have done this by compulsion . Martial law was established in the colony by the power to which he owed obe- dience . He could not resist the mandate of the Go- vernor ...
... judge , might sit as a military judge and a soldier ! Sir , he must have done this by compulsion . Martial law was established in the colony by the power to which he owed obe- dience . He could not resist the mandate of the Go- vernor ...
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... Judge - Advocate was to lay the proof on both sides before the court ; and that whenever the evi- dence was at all doubtful , it was his duty to incline towards the prisoner . No such disposition , however , appears in this Judge ...
... Judge - Advocate was to lay the proof on both sides before the court ; and that whenever the evi- dence was at all doubtful , it was his duty to incline towards the prisoner . No such disposition , however , appears in this Judge ...
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