Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...H.M. Stationery Office, 1898 - Trials |
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... learned friend , the Attorney - General , felt this to be a most painful case as regards his feelings , you will easily suppose how much more painful is to me the duty which I have to perform . In common with him and with every one of ...
... learned friend , the Attorney - General , felt this to be a most painful case as regards his feelings , you will easily suppose how much more painful is to me the duty which I have to perform . In common with him and with every one of ...
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... learned friend that there are certain rules in these matters , and those rules must be adhered to , and , undoubtedly , the rule of the English law as laid down by the learned judges upon various occasions , and especially upon a very ...
... learned friend that there are certain rules in these matters , and those rules must be adhered to , and , undoubtedly , the rule of the English law as laid down by the learned judges upon various occasions , and especially upon a very ...
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... learned friend , the Attorney - General , that , as regards the question of a man's guilt or innocence , where he is found in the very act of committing an offence , you have nothing to do with his motives , the motives do become ...
... learned friend , the Attorney - General , that , as regards the question of a man's guilt or innocence , where he is found in the very act of committing an offence , you have nothing to do with his motives , the motives do become ...
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... learned Judges , would have been called on to make an order which would reverse everything that had been done in the Court below . But as the Vice - Chan- cellor here made a decree , which was merely affirmed by the Lord Chancellor ...
... learned Judges , would have been called on to make an order which would reverse everything that had been done in the Court below . But as the Vice - Chan- cellor here made a decree , which was merely affirmed by the Lord Chancellor ...
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... learned friend has referred . One of them is that which arises upon the first argument of the appellant , upon which your Lordships have taken the opinion of the learned Judges , and it is immaterial , as to the result of this case , in ...
... learned friend has referred . One of them is that which arises upon the first argument of the appellant , upon which your Lordships have taken the opinion of the learned Judges , and it is immaterial , as to the result of this case , in ...
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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.