Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial Held at Montreal in 1838-9: Exhibiting a Complete History of the Late Rebellion in Lower Canada, Volume 2Armour and Ramsay, 1839 - Canada |
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Page 324 - Experience of more than nine years, during which it has been uniformly administered; be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the same shall continue to be administered, and shall be observed as Law in the Province of Quebec...
Page 353 - Kiel, against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of Our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 127 - ... constitute a levying of war, without which no act can amount to treason ; but he does not particularize the parts to be performed by the different persons concerned in that war, which shall be sufficient to fix on each the guilt of levying it. Foster says, " The joining with rebels in an act of rebellion, or with enemies in acts of hostility, will make a man a traitor.
Page 431 - EXPRESSED, in the statute of Mary, excludes all implications or inferences whatsoever ; secondly, that no former attainder, judgment, precedent, resolution, or opinion of judges, or justices, of high treason, other than such as are specified and expressed in the statute of Edward the Third, are to be followed or drawn into example. For the words be plain and direct...
Page 420 - By a justice of the peace; who may himself apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, by word only, any person committing a felony or breach of the peace in his presence'.
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Page 325 - Case requires, subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as exist under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) to be abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada".
Page 231 - Of Specification twelve to Charge II, "Guilty." Of Specification thirteen to Charge II, "Not Guilty." And the Commission does therefore sentence him, the said Henry Wirz, "to be hanged by the neck till he be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States may direct, two-thirds of the court concurring therein.
Page 247 - Foster held, that it is indeed necessary on this indictment that some overt act laid be proved on the prisoner in Cumberland ; but that being done, acts of treason tending to prove the overt acts laid, though done in a foreign county, may be given in evidence.
Page 352 - Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable military Order of the Bath, and...