Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...H.M. Stationery Office, 1898 - Trials |
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... instance , independently of other facts and the evidence that can be brought before you in the present case , to only one conclusion , and that is , that the man who committed such an act , could not be possessed of the degree of sanity ...
... instance , independently of other facts and the evidence that can be brought before you in the present case , to only one conclusion , and that is , that the man who committed such an act , could not be possessed of the degree of sanity ...
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... instance , a man labours under the delusion that another person is about to kill him , and he , believing it necessary for his self - protection , kills the man whom he insanely believes is about to kill him- such a man is dispunishable ...
... instance , a man labours under the delusion that another person is about to kill him , and he , believing it necessary for his self - protection , kills the man whom he insanely believes is about to kill him- such a man is dispunishable ...
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... instance of it . Therefore the man who believes that it is a right act for him to do is dispunishable , but the man who believes that it is a wrong act for him to do is punishable . Now let me try it by the test here . Did this ...
... instance of it . Therefore the man who believes that it is a right act for him to do is dispunishable , but the man who believes that it is a wrong act for him to do is punishable . Now let me try it by the test here . Did this ...
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... instance . Here there neither was nor could be any personal summons ; the defendant could not be re- quired to appear without a breach of the law of nations ; the plea to the jurisdic- tion could only have been pleaded by her in her ...
... instance . Here there neither was nor could be any personal summons ; the defendant could not be re- quired to appear without a breach of the law of nations ; the plea to the jurisdic- tion could only have been pleaded by her in her ...
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... instance of a proceeding against the Mayor of Hereford , for acting as judge in his own cause , in an anonymous case in 1 Salk . 201 , and likewise in a case of Wright v . Crump ( 2 Lord Raym . 766 , ) where alone the circumstances of ...
... instance of a proceeding against the Mayor of Hereford , for acting as judge in his own cause , in an anonymous case in 1 Salk . 201 , and likewise in a case of Wright v . Crump ( 2 Lord Raym . 766 , ) where alone the circumstances of ...
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Page 117 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 119 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject" is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the heirs of her body being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever.
Page 149 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 849 - Queen and you upon your respective trials, [or, in a capital case, "upon your life and death "] ; if therefore you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them as they come to the book to be sworn, and before they are sworn, and you shall be heard.
Page 119 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown to her present Majesty, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants.
Page 551 - ... for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate of the clear yearly value of not less than five pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 347 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 115 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God.
Page 113 - I AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my Conscience...
Page 147 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.