Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit: With Select Decisions at Chambers, Volume 3Stevens & Norton, Sweet and Maxwell, 1864 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... trial . The verdict was taken for 791. 4s . 8d . Spring Assizes . Where the de- THIS fendant had burnt bricks in a kiln , within twenty feet of the plaintiff's garden and forty feet of his house , where he had lived and car- ried on ...
... trial . The verdict was taken for 791. 4s . 8d . Spring Assizes . Where the de- THIS fendant had burnt bricks in a kiln , within twenty feet of the plaintiff's garden and forty feet of his house , where he had lived and car- ried on ...
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... trial seems to show that it is not so . In this very case the defendant moved for a new trial ; why should he not have had a bill of exceptions ? Coram Wightman , J. THE QUEEN v . PAGET . INDICTMENT for obstructing a highway . First ...
... trial seems to show that it is not so . In this very case the defendant moved for a new trial ; why should he not have had a bill of exceptions ? Coram Wightman , J. THE QUEEN v . PAGET . INDICTMENT for obstructing a highway . First ...
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... trial lasted two days . ERLE , C. J. , in summing up the case to the jury , said the case had taken up a long time , but not longer than its importance either to the character of the defendant or the profession to which he belonged most ...
... trial lasted two days . ERLE , C. J. , in summing up the case to the jury , said the case had taken up a long time , but not longer than its importance either to the character of the defendant or the profession to which he belonged most ...
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... trial , on the ground of misdirection and rejec- tion of evidence as to the extra work . But in Easter Term the rule was discharged , the Court thinking that the orders for the alleged ex- tras ought to have been in writing , signed by ...
... trial , on the ground of misdirection and rejec- tion of evidence as to the extra work . But in Easter Term the rule was discharged , the Court thinking that the orders for the alleged ex- tras ought to have been in writing , signed by ...
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... trial if the jury acted upon it . The learned Judge , in summing up said , there was no defence as to the searching of the boxes and the taking away of the plaintiff in a cart ; but as to the other matters , 1862 . POOLE v . WHITCOMBE ...
... trial if the jury acted upon it . The learned Judge , in summing up said , there was no defence as to the searching of the boxes and the taking away of the plaintiff in a cart ; but as to the other matters , 1862 . POOLE v . WHITCOMBE ...
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Page 646 - States shall then be at peace with such belligerent. ) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly being concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship...
Page 645 - ... in the service of or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise...
Page 648 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 671 - It was contended on the part of the French nation, in 1796, that neutral governments were bound to restrain their subjects from selling or exporting articles contraband of war to the belligerent powers. But it was successfully shown on the part of the United States that neutrals may lawfully sell at home to a belligerent purchaser, or carry, themselves, to the belligerent powers contraband articles subject to the right of seizure in transitu.
Page 843 - ... he was committing ; or, in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the act that it was a crime.
Page 660 - Arms, Military Stores, or Materials, or any Article or Articles considered and deemed to be contraband of War according to the Law or Modern Usage of Nations, for the use or service of either of the said Contending Parties...
Page 646 - That if any person, within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, shall, without the leave and...
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Page 344 - Mind,] and a proper Person to be taken charge of and detained under Care and Treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz : — 1.