Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, 4. raamatR. Welsh, 1902 |
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Page 1425
... criminal law ; or , as it is more usually denominated with us in England , the doctrine of the pleas of the crown ; ( 3 ) so called because the king , in whom centres the majesty of the whole community , is supposed by the law to be the ...
... criminal law ; or , as it is more usually denominated with us in England , the doctrine of the pleas of the crown ; ( 3 ) so called because the king , in whom centres the majesty of the whole community , is supposed by the law to be the ...
Page 1426
... criminal law ought also to be the care and attention of the legislature in properly forming and enforcing it . It should be founded upon principles that are permanent , uniform , * 3 ] * and universal ; and always conformable to the ...
... criminal law ought also to be the care and attention of the legislature in properly forming and enforcing it . It should be founded upon principles that are permanent , uniform , * 3 ] * and universal ; and always conformable to the ...
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... criminal law , it could not have con- tinued to this hour a felony , without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the company of persons who call themselves , or are called , Egyptians . ( g ) It is true that these outrageous ...
... criminal law , it could not have con- tinued to this hour a felony , without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the company of persons who call themselves , or are called , Egyptians . ( g ) It is true that these outrageous ...
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... criminal cases " is not confined to " crimes " to the exclusion of misdemeanors . State v . Savannah , Charlton's Reports , 235 , 237 ( 1809 ) . ( 8 ) Every injury to the public is such also to each individual . Bishop's New Criminal ...
... criminal cases " is not confined to " crimes " to the exclusion of misdemeanors . State v . Savannah , Charlton's Reports , 235 , 237 ( 1809 ) . ( 8 ) Every injury to the public is such also to each individual . Bishop's New Criminal ...
Page 1429
... criminal prosecution was founded . Styles , 346. 12 East , 409. Rep . T. Hardw . 350. 17 Ves . 329. No action can be ... criminal prosecution must be first instituted . Clark's Criminal Law , 7 ( 1894 ) . See Waterman on Trespass , vol ...
... criminal prosecution was founded . Styles , 346. 12 East , 409. Rep . T. Hardw . 350. 17 Ves . 329. No action can be ... criminal prosecution must be first instituted . Clark's Criminal Law , 7 ( 1894 ) . See Waterman on Trespass , vol ...
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Page 1442 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring 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.
Page 1592 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 1554 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press, but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Page 1564 - England by any other than a subject of his majesty, or to an> person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 1489 - On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors ; hut there must be an actual assembling of men for the treasonable purpose to constitute a levying of war.
Page 1689 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence...
Page 1554 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, (л) is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 1805 - Warwick aforesaid, by whom the truth of the matter may be better known, and who are not of kin to the said...
Page 1734 - ... taken or received by transfer or delivery, by some person or body corporate, for a just and valuable consideration, without any notice, or without any reasonable cause to suspect that the same had by any felony or misdemeanor been stolen, taken, obtained, or converted as aforesaid, in such case the Court shall not award or order the restitution of such security.
Page 1511 - II, c. 5, which enacts, that whoever procures at Rome, or elsewhere, any translations, processes, excommunications, bulles, instruments, or other things which touch the king, against him, his crown, and realm, and all persons aiding and assisting therein, shall be put out of the king's protection, their lands and goods forfeited to the king's use, and they shall be attached by their bodies to answer to the king and his council: or process of prcemunire facias shall be made out against them as in...