Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, 4. raamatR. Welsh, 1902 |
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Page 1429
... particular sustains , and recover a civil satisfaction in damages . ( 12 ) So , also , in case of a public nuisance , as digging a ditch across a highway : this is punishable by indictment as a common offence to the whole kingdom and ...
... particular sustains , and recover a civil satisfaction in damages . ( 12 ) So , also , in case of a public nuisance , as digging a ditch across a highway : this is punishable by indictment as a common offence to the whole kingdom and ...
Page 1432
... particular pur- pose it is meant to serve , and by no means to exceed it : therefore the pains of death , and perpetual disability by exile , slavery , or imprisonment , ought never to be inflicted but when the offender appears ...
... particular pur- pose it is meant to serve , and by no means to exceed it : therefore the pains of death , and perpetual disability by exile , slavery , or imprisonment , ought never to be inflicted but when the offender appears ...
Page 1437
... particular and special exceptions ; for the general rule is , that no person shall be excused from punishment for disobedience to the laws of his country , excepting such as are expressly de- fined and exempted by the laws themselves ...
... particular and special exceptions ; for the general rule is , that no person shall be excused from punishment for disobedience to the laws of his country , excepting such as are expressly de- fined and exempted by the laws themselves ...
Page 1438
... particular action : he , therefore , that has no understanding can have no will to guide his conduct . ( 5 ) 2. Where there is understanding and will sufficient residing in the party , but not called forth or exerted at the time of the ...
... particular action : he , therefore , that has no understanding can have no will to guide his conduct . ( 5 ) 2. Where there is understanding and will sufficient residing in the party , but not called forth or exerted at the time of the ...
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... particular objects of compassion than to countenance and establish theft by one general undistinguishing law . VII . To these several cases , in which the incapacity of committing crimes arises from a deficiency of the will , we may add ...
... particular objects of compassion than to countenance and establish theft by one general undistinguishing law . VII . To these several cases , in which the incapacity of committing crimes arises from a deficiency of the will , we may add ...
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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...