Principles of the Criminal LawStevens and Haynes, 1884 - 596 pages |
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... regarded as a civil injury , for which pecuniary redress had to be made . And we have only to point back to the Anglo - Saxon system to illustrate the narrowness of the domain of criminal ( b ) Sometimes the exercise of this discretion ...
... regarded as a civil injury , for which pecuniary redress had to be made . And we have only to point back to the Anglo - Saxon system to illustrate the narrowness of the domain of criminal ( b ) Sometimes the exercise of this discretion ...
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... regarded as a crime or a civil injury according as it is viewed and proceedings are taken with reference to the one or the other sanc- tion . In the English law the best examples of this are libels and assaults . The same writings , or ...
... regarded as a crime or a civil injury according as it is viewed and proceedings are taken with reference to the one or the other sanc- tion . In the English law the best examples of this are libels and assaults . The same writings , or ...
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... regarded as common to both , an example will serve to show . A. knowingly , fraudulently , and with intent to deceive B. , sells him a quantity of beer short of the just measure . This was held to be only an inconvenience and injury to ...
... regarded as common to both , an example will serve to show . A. knowingly , fraudulently , and with intent to deceive B. , sells him a quantity of beer short of the just measure . This was held to be only an inconvenience and injury to ...
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... regarded as a negative expression ; being applied to indictable crimes not falling within the class of felonies ( d ) . In a wide and general sense , the term is also used synonymously with crime . " Recently ( 1870 ) the legislature ...
... regarded as a negative expression ; being applied to indictable crimes not falling within the class of felonies ( d ) . In a wide and general sense , the term is also used synonymously with crime . " Recently ( 1870 ) the legislature ...
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... regarded as the test . ( f ) " There is great difference of opinion as to the cause of the uncer- tainty ; the lawyers asserting that it is owing to the fanciful theories of medical men , who never fail to find insanity when they ...
... regarded as the test . ( f ) " There is great difference of opinion as to the cause of the uncer- tainty ; the lawyers asserting that it is owing to the fanciful theories of medical men , who never fail to find insanity when they ...
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Popular passages
Page 22 - ... 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.
Page 108 - Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Page 22 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Page 127 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Page 90 - ... to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 203 - Order, or other Security whatsoever, entitling or evidencing the Title of any Person or Body Corporate to any Share or Interest in any Public Stock or Fund, whether of this Kingdom, or of Great Britain or of Ireland, or of any Foreign State, or in any Fund of any Body Corporate, Company, or Society, or to any Deposit in any Savings...
Page 410 - Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony ; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Page 410 - A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing, or reduced into writing, relative to the subject-matter of the cause, without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing, his attention must, before such contradictory proof can be given, be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him...
Page 440 - Comparison of a disputed Writing with any Writing proved to the Satisfaction of the Court to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by Witnesses ; and such Writings, and the Evidence of Witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and Jury as Evidence of the Genuineness, or otherwise, of the Writing in dispute.