 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 602 pages
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy...will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit thp guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence; and judges, through compaa1 See note M at the end... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...of actions that men are daily liable to commit, no less than two hundred have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. When we inquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue is composed, we shall... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...of actions that men are daily liable to commit, no less than two hundred have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. When we inquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue is composed, we shall... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in...diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, [ 19 ] through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion, will sometimes... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So drendful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, [ 19 ] through... | |
 | Samuel Parr - Theology - 1828 - 796 pages
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,...compassion will sometimes forget their oaths, and cither acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence; and judges through compassion will... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 446 pages
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' 4 Com. 18. And Lord Holland, in a debate in the House of Lords, May 30, 1810, having quoted the passage,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy;...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. This is surely extending the right of inflicting capital punishments much farther than is warranted... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1828 - 478 pages
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.* It is an indelible disgrace to an age which boasts of its being enlightened with the beams of science... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list,' adds this celebrated commentator, ' instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
