A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes Upon Each Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment, 2. köideS. Brooke, 1826 |
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... contained . July . Forms of Precepts , & c . to be printed . V. And be it further enacted , That every such Clerk of the Peace shall cause a sufficient Number of Warrants , Precepts , and Returns to be printed , according to the several ...
... contained . July . Forms of Precepts , & c . to be printed . V. And be it further enacted , That every such Clerk of the Peace shall cause a sufficient Number of Warrants , Precepts , and Returns to be printed , according to the several ...
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... contained in the Jurors Book for the then current Year , and no others ; and that where Process for returning a Jury for the Trial of any of the Issues aforesaid shall be directed to any Coroner , Elisor , or other Minister , he shall ...
... contained in the Jurors Book for the then current Year , and no others ; and that where Process for returning a Jury for the Trial of any of the Issues aforesaid shall be directed to any Coroner , Elisor , or other Minister , he shall ...
Page ix
... contained in the Panels to the several Writs of Venire Facias annexed as aforesaid , with their respective Places of Abode and Additions ; and the Sheriff or other Mi- nister to whom the Return of Jurors for the Trial of Causes in any ...
... contained in the Panels to the several Writs of Venire Facias annexed as aforesaid , with their respective Places of Abode and Additions ; and the Sheriff or other Mi- nister to whom the Return of Jurors for the Trial of Causes in any ...
Page x
... contained shall anyways extend to any Indictment for High Treason in compassing and imagining the Death of the King , or for Misprision of such Treason , where the Overt Act or Overt Acts of such Treason alledged in the Indictment shall ...
... contained shall anyways extend to any Indictment for High Treason in compassing and imagining the Death of the King , or for Misprision of such Treason , where the Overt Act or Overt Acts of such Treason alledged in the Indictment shall ...
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... contained shall extend in anywise to any Special Juror . Nor to extend to Special Ju- ror's . Nor the Want on the Jury . XXVIII . And be it further enacted , That no Challenge shall be taken to any Panel of Jurors for Want of a Knight's ...
... contained shall extend in anywise to any Special Juror . Nor to extend to Special Ju- ror's . Nor the Want on the Jury . XXVIII . And be it further enacted , That no Challenge shall be taken to any Panel of Jurors for Want of a Knight's ...
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Page xlvii - ... purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court or other Officer having the custody of the Records of the Court where the offender was first convicted, or by the Deputy of such Clerk or Officer...
Page 7 - ... the justice shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the convicting justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) to commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Page 7 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 9 - ... and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Page 8 - Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years nor less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Three Years...
Page liii - Court, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of Seven Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award...
Page lxiv - Act passed or to be passed, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 11 - ... may commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, as the justice shall think fit, for any term not exceeding two calendar months, unless such sum and costs be sooner paid...
Page lxix - ' for Costs shall be paid to [the Complainant^. Given '• under my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year first above mentioned.