A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 22Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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... appears to him unnecessary to appoint a suc- cessor , also informing their lordships that Mr. Powell still holds the ... appear to him in what manner any one could have been advantaged by it , except the heirs of lord Holland . Transmit ...
... appears to him unnecessary to appoint a suc- cessor , also informing their lordships that Mr. Powell still holds the ... appear to him in what manner any one could have been advantaged by it , except the heirs of lord Holland . Transmit ...
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... appear 48,7991 . 198. 11d . , over and besides those two in evidence to you , that this was very well articles that had been pomted out at the audi- , known , and indeed , the gentleman who sits tors - office , and agreed to be added at ...
... appear 48,7991 . 198. 11d . , over and besides those two in evidence to you , that this was very well articles that had been pomted out at the audi- , known , and indeed , the gentleman who sits tors - office , and agreed to be added at ...
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... appear what be the object of an indictment ; the only the balance was ? difference is , that it is the privilege of Mr. Baldwin . In the second letter , your the attorney - general to proceed by inforlordsbip sees , he states that he ...
... appear what be the object of an indictment ; the only the balance was ? difference is , that it is the privilege of Mr. Baldwin . In the second letter , your the attorney - general to proceed by inforlordsbip sees , he states that he ...
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... appearing to aim at I know that is the way in which my learned one thing , and , in truth , looking after another , friend ... appear to you , was for a time wrong , but is followed by no ill therefore , beyond all doubt , that Mr. Bem ...
... appearing to aim at I know that is the way in which my learned one thing , and , in truth , looking after another , friend ... appear to you , was for a time wrong , but is followed by no ill therefore , beyond all doubt , that Mr. Bem ...
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... appear , that if the ex- paymaster or his executors had got the books and papers in his hands and was going out of the door of the pay - office , and the new pay- master ran after him and snatched them from him , the ex - paymaster or ...
... appear , that if the ex- paymaster or his executors had got the books and papers in his hands and was going out of the door of the pay - office , and the new pay- master ran after him and snatched them from him , the ex - paymaster or ...
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Page 465 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 437 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 359 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 383 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 385 - 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.
Page 361 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 383 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 437 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us ; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 385 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 407 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very Judge to be his Counsel.