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Pagina 6
... Elizabeth and James I , are , indeed , meagre and imperfect , though they are capable of being ren- dered much more intelligible by a reference to state papers and other original documents ; but the reports of Trials in the reign of ...
... Elizabeth and James I , are , indeed , meagre and imperfect , though they are capable of being ren- dered much more intelligible by a reference to state papers and other original documents ; but the reports of Trials in the reign of ...
Pagina 8
... Elizabeth , the practice was to arrest the suspected person , and to keep him in strict imprisonment till it suited the purposes of the Crown to try him . During this interval , ( which was quite without limit in practice , however ...
... Elizabeth , the practice was to arrest the suspected person , and to keep him in strict imprisonment till it suited the purposes of the Crown to try him . During this interval , ( which was quite without limit in practice , however ...
Pagina 10
... Elizabeth ; let us now look at the law and practice in the time of George III . In modern times , a person imprisoned on a charge of treason is entitled immediately to a copy of the warrant of commitment , which the gaoler is bound to ...
... Elizabeth ; let us now look at the law and practice in the time of George III . In modern times , a person imprisoned on a charge of treason is entitled immediately to a copy of the warrant of commitment , which the gaoler is bound to ...
Pagina 11
... Elizabeth an Englishman not in a state of villeinage had , by the constitutional law of the land , an unquestionable right to personal liberty ; but the means he possessed of vindicating his freedom and escaping from the grasp of a ...
... Elizabeth an Englishman not in a state of villeinage had , by the constitutional law of the land , an unquestionable right to personal liberty ; but the means he possessed of vindicating his freedom and escaping from the grasp of a ...
Pagina 13
... Elizabeth's reign , says , ' It is against the law of England to torture , for the purpose of eliciting a confession of guilt ; the practice savours too much of slavery for a free people . It is natural to an Englishman to despise death ...
... Elizabeth's reign , says , ' It is against the law of England to torture , for the purpose of eliciting a confession of guilt ; the practice savours too much of slavery for a free people . It is natural to an Englishman to despise death ...
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The Lives and Criminal Trials of Celebrated Men (1835) David Jardine Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2009 |
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Pagina 106 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Pagina 107 - Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began...
Pagina 365 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Pagina 503 - God heartily, that he hath brought me into the light to die, and hath not suffered me to die in the dark prison of the Tower, where I have suffered a great deal of adversity and a long sickness ; and I thank God that my fever hath not taken me at this time, as I prayed God it might not.
Pagina 165 - King, . . . and until the end of the next session of parliament after a demise of the crown, shall, within the realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint...
Pagina 454 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me ; which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Pagina 453 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not...
Pagina 29 - And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.
Pagina 419 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Pagina 501 - I know you have been valiant and wise, and I doubt not but you retain both these virtues, for now you shall have occasion to use them. Your faith hath heretofore been questioned, but I am resolved you are a good Christian, for your book which is an admirable work, doth testify as much. I would give you counsel, but I know you can apply unto yourself far better than I am able to give you...