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, Volume 2S. Brooke, 1826 - Criminal law |
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... Cause , and so toties quoties , as the Case shall require ; and if any Defendant or Tenant in any Action depending in any of the said Courts shall be minded to bring to Trial any Issue joined against him , where by the Practice of the ...
... Cause , and so toties quoties , as the Case shall require ; and if any Defendant or Tenant in any Action depending in any of the said Courts shall be minded to bring to Trial any Issue joined against him , where by the Practice of the ...
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... Causes in any County in England ( except the Counties Palatine ) may belong , shall cause to be made out an Alphabetical List of the Names of all the Jurors contained in the Panels to the several Writs of Venire Facias annexed as ...
... Causes in any County in England ( except the Counties Palatine ) may belong , shall cause to be made out an Alphabetical List of the Names of all the Jurors contained in the Panels to the several Writs of Venire Facias annexed as ...
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... Causes at Nisi Prius , doth belong , shall summon and impanel such Number of Jurors , not exceeding One Hundred and Forty - four , as such Judges or Justices respectively shall think fit to direct , to serve indiscriminately on the ...
... Causes at Nisi Prius , doth belong , shall summon and impanel such Number of Jurors , not exceeding One Hundred and Forty - four , as such Judges or Justices respectively shall think fit to direct , to serve indiscriminately on the ...
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... Causes of Challenge allowed , shall remain as fair and indifferent ; and the said Twelve Men so first drawn and appearing , and approved as in- different , their Names being marked in ... Cause of xii 6 GEO . IV . Cap . 50 .- ( Juries . )
... Causes of Challenge allowed , shall remain as fair and indifferent ; and the said Twelve Men so first drawn and appearing , and approved as in- different , their Names being marked in ... Cause of xii 6 GEO . IV . Cap . 50 .- ( Juries . )
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... Cause of Chal- the Want of Freehold . XXVII . And be it further enacted , That if any Man shall be returned as a Juror for the Trial of any Issue in any of the Courts herein - before mentioned , who shall not be qualified according to ...
... Cause of Chal- the Want of Freehold . XXVII . And be it further enacted , That if any Man shall be returned as a Juror for the Trial of any Issue in any of the Courts herein - before mentioned , who shall not be qualified according to ...
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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.