 | Edward Shepherd Creasey - 1853 - 366 pagina’s
...imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction,... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...Commentaries, vol. and jurors which pass upou men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 pagina’s
...returned, and jurors who pass judgment upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, Jbefore conviction, are illegal and void. 13. That for redress of all grievances, and for the amending,... | |
 | James White - 1855 - 308 pagina’s
...retainers and servants of the prosecutor, by which a hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons before conviction, are illegal and void." This put an end to the bestowal of the spoils of a person under trial on some favourite of the king,... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 pagina’s
...important matter of criminal jurisprudence. It stands as a constitutional article in the Bill of Rights, that " all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." An illustration of the usage in this respect that had prevailed occurs in Reresby's memoirs: — On... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1857 - 340 pagina’s
...occurring in the reign of Charles II., illustrates the importance of that clause of the Bill of Rights " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." Sir John Reresby relates, in his Memoirs, that a foolish and scandalous report had got abroad, that... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1857 - 440 pagina’s
...punishments ; also the erection of the Ecclesiastical Commission, or any similar court ; it declares grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, void ; claims the right of keeping arms for Protestants ; free election to, and freedom of speech in,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 560 pagina’s
...ought to be duly empanelled and returned ; and jurors, which pass upon men in trials of high-treason, ought to be freeholders : That all grants, and promises...before conviction, are illegal and void : And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliaments... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 304 pagina’s
...retainers and servants of the prosecutor, by which a hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons before conviction, are illegal and void." This put an end to the bestowal of the spoils of a person under trial on some favourite of the king,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1858 - 718 pagina’s
...imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. [This provision respecting the qualification of jurors in cases of treason is repealed by the Jury... | |
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That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 
