A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Heads, Volume 1S. Sweet, 1824 - Criminal procedure |
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... ground of my ambition to dedicate it to your Lordship , and not to give myself an opportunity of publishing how much I honour those wonderful talents that have raised you to so high a station . A private character indeed may be set ...
... ground of my ambition to dedicate it to your Lordship , and not to give myself an opportunity of publishing how much I honour those wonderful talents that have raised you to so high a station . A private character indeed may be set ...
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... ground to believe that such dealer , & c . was privy to the fraud ; or if such dealer shall , on the trial of any suit or prosecution against himself concerning the pre- mises , prove that he delivered to such maker or worker a suffi ...
... ground to believe that such dealer , & c . was privy to the fraud ; or if such dealer shall , on the trial of any suit or prosecution against himself concerning the pre- mises , prove that he delivered to such maker or worker a suffi ...
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... ground for a public prosecution , as for an offence against the common peace , & c . 66 66 And agreeable hereto it hath been resolved , that a man shall not be indicted for saying , that " whenever a burgess of such a " town puts on his ...
... ground for a public prosecution , as for an offence against the common peace , & c . 66 66 And agreeable hereto it hath been resolved , that a man shall not be indicted for saying , that " whenever a burgess of such a " town puts on his ...
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... ground the forfeiture on any default in the things forfeited , since it extends it to things without life , to which it is plain that no manner of fault can be imputed . Sect . 5. Also , by the opinion of our ancient authors , things ...
... ground the forfeiture on any default in the things forfeited , since it extends it to things without life , to which it is plain that no manner of fault can be imputed . Sect . 5. Also , by the opinion of our ancient authors , things ...
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... ground , and then hastily falling upon him wound himself with a knife which B. happens to have in his hand and die , in both these cases A. is felo de se , for he is the only agent . Sect . 5. But if B. , being so assaulted , had been ...
... ground , and then hastily falling upon him wound himself with a knife which B. happens to have in his hand and die , in both these cases A. is felo de se , for he is the only agent . Sect . 5. But if B. , being so assaulted , had been ...
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Page 57 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 385 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject...
Page 235 - Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 48 - Province, or part of any Province or People, or in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of, any Person or Persons exercising, or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People...
Page 47 - ... part of any province or people, or in the service of or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of...
Page 71 - Attempts whatever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose...
Page 57 - I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority preeminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.
Page 158 - ... such offender shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same...
Page 385 - I do declare that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 531 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.