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... kill , & c . Of Affrays .. .. Of Riots , Routs , and Unlawful Assemblies Of Tumultuous Petitioning Of Forcible Entry and Detainer .. Of Riding or going armed , & c . Of Spreading False News Of False and Pretended Prophecies .. Of ...
... kill , & c . Of Affrays .. .. Of Riots , Routs , and Unlawful Assemblies Of Tumultuous Petitioning Of Forcible Entry and Detainer .. Of Riding or going armed , & c . Of Spreading False News Of False and Pretended Prophecies .. Of ...
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... killing any private subject ( s ) ; and yet , generally , a design to transgress , is not so flagrant an enormity as the actual completion of that design . For evil , the nearer we approach it , is the more disagreeable and shocking ...
... killing any private subject ( s ) ; and yet , generally , a design to transgress , is not so flagrant an enormity as the actual completion of that design . For evil , the nearer we approach it , is the more disagreeable and shocking ...
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... kill a man upon sudden and violent resentment , is less penal than upon cool deliberate malice . The age , education , and character , of the offender ; the repetition , ( or otherwise , ) of the offence ; the time , the place , the ...
... kill a man upon sudden and violent resentment , is less penal than upon cool deliberate malice . The age , education , and character , of the offender ; the repetition , ( or otherwise , ) of the offence ; the time , the place , the ...
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... kill a thief or house- breaker in his own house , by mistake kills one of his family , this is no criminal action ( g ) : but if a man thinks he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or out- lawed , wherever he meets him , and ...
... kill a thief or house- breaker in his own house , by mistake kills one of his family , this is no criminal action ( g ) : but if a man thinks he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or out- lawed , wherever he meets him , and ...
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... kill an innocent person then present , -this will not acquit him of murder if he commits the act ; for he ought rather to die himself than kill an innocent ( x ) . [ But in such a case , he is permitted to kill the assailant ; for there ...
... kill an innocent person then present , -this will not acquit him of murder if he commits the act ; for he ought rather to die himself than kill an innocent ( x ) . [ But in such a case , he is permitted to kill the assailant ; for there ...
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Page 332 - The liberty of the press is, indeed, essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Page 333 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 162 - ... unlawfully and maliciously shoot at any person ; or shall, by drawing a trigger, or in any other manner, attempt to discharge any kind of loaded arms at any person...
Page 352 - Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 150 - Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses : but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 322 - That if any Persons, riotously and tumultuously assembled together to the Disturbance of the Public Peace, shall unlawfully and with Force demolish, pull down, or destroy...
Page 204 - ... of silk, woollen, linen, or cotton, or of any one or more of those materials mixed with each other, or mixed with any other material...
Page 446 - That in every presentment or indictment to be prosecuted against any person for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom the oath...
Page 449 - ... for want of the averment of any matter unnecessary to be proved, nor for the omission of the words " as appears by the record," or of the words
Page 111 - If, after he be tried and found guilty, he loses his senses before judgment, judgment shall not be pronounced ; and if, after judgment, he becomes of non-sane memory, execution shall be stayed ; for peradventure, says the humanity of the English law, had the prisoner been of sound memory, he might have alleged something in stay of judgment or execution.