Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...H.M. Stationery Office, 1898 - Trials |
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... reason and faculty to guide him in his actions , and to enable him to reflect , he would have known , would immediately proceed to inflict the most disastrous violence upon him , which would have been the result , as the policeman said ...
... reason and faculty to guide him in his actions , and to enable him to reflect , he would have known , would immediately proceed to inflict the most disastrous violence upon him , which would have been the result , as the policeman said ...
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... reason at the time ; but he acted under some strange morbid impulse , which he had no power apparently of resisting . Edward Thomas Monro , M.D. - Examined by Huddleston . I have had five interviews with Mr. Pate since this occurrence ...
... reason at the time ; but he acted under some strange morbid impulse , which he had no power apparently of resisting . Edward Thomas Monro , M.D. - Examined by Huddleston . I have had five interviews with Mr. Pate since this occurrence ...
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... reason that the statute under which we are now proceeding enacted that , subject to the general nature of the offence and the character and position of the offenders , my lords should , upon conviction , have a discretion to imprison ...
... reason that the statute under which we are now proceeding enacted that , subject to the general nature of the offence and the character and position of the offenders , my lords should , upon conviction , have a discretion to imprison ...
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... reason for excusing the party , seeing that the act has relation to the insanity of which the unfortunate man is the subject . But suppose that a man has an insanity about his head , believing that his head is made of glass , and then ...
... reason for excusing the party , seeing that the act has relation to the insanity of which the unfortunate man is the subject . But suppose that a man has an insanity about his head , believing that his head is made of glass , and then ...
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... reason of that disease of the mind , in- capable of judging whether or not the act which he does at the time when he does it is a wrong act for him to do . You must see that the defendant has some disease of the mind . You must see that ...
... reason of that disease of the mind , in- capable of judging whether or not the act which he does at the time when he does it is a wrong act for him to do . You must see that the defendant has some disease of the mind . You must see that ...
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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.