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... jury , because they are indifferent , and obliged to be unani- mous ; but juries are embarrassed by the sophistry of lawyers , and their decisions often entangled by forms and precedents . Private arbitration would be more valuable , if ...
... jury , because they are indifferent , and obliged to be unani- mous ; but juries are embarrassed by the sophistry of lawyers , and their decisions often entangled by forms and precedents . Private arbitration would be more valuable , if ...
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... juries in the Exchequer , before whom fiscal grievances and oppressions are , in the last resort , to be tried , should be indifferently and independently drawn from the whole body of the jurors of the district . XIX . A wise legislator ...
... juries in the Exchequer , before whom fiscal grievances and oppressions are , in the last resort , to be tried , should be indifferently and independently drawn from the whole body of the jurors of the district . XIX . A wise legislator ...
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... jury from abuse , but should not permit the property , interest , or liberties , of the people , to be subject to any other power . The summary authority con- ferred by modern statutes on single magis- trates , and on majorities of ...
... jury from abuse , but should not permit the property , interest , or liberties , of the people , to be subject to any other power . The summary authority con- ferred by modern statutes on single magis- trates , and on majorities of ...
Page 93
... jury should determine , and the law should prescribe the maximum and minimum of punishment in each species . XXVI . Members of the legislature should never forget , that they are the guardians of the equal rights of the whole population ...
... jury should determine , and the law should prescribe the maximum and minimum of punishment in each species . XXVI . Members of the legislature should never forget , that they are the guardians of the equal rights of the whole population ...
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... Juries should be summoned by the sheriff in rotation , in the order of their local residences , from among the tything - men , from at least three districts of the court's jurisdiction . XVIII . Grand and Special Juries should be taken ...
... Juries should be summoned by the sheriff in rotation , in the order of their local residences , from among the tything - men , from at least three districts of the court's jurisdiction . XVIII . Grand and Special Juries should be taken ...
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Page 186 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 234 - And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day — There children dwell, who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; 235 Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot and the madman gay.
Page 173 - ... directly or indirectly, any sum or sums of money, office, place, or employment, gift or reward, or any promise or security for any money, office, place, employment, or gift, in order to give my vote at this election; and that I have not before been polled at this election.
Page 183 - It is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons for any lord of Parliament, or any lord lieutenant of any county, to concern himself in the election of members of Parliament.
Page 191 - These errors do not consist of one practice more than another : as whether a reptile is adored as the fetisch of a nation ; or a monstrous idol as its protector ; or an unsculptured god clothed with human sentiments, caprices, and passions ; or whether stars, or gods and goddesses, or luck and ill-luck, or fate and destiny, or charms and miracles, or incantations and invocations : the principle of erroneous superstition is the same whenever a cause of a material effect is assumed which is not material,...
Page 316 - Clean and set out your windows before eight o'clock ; and do this with your own hands, that you may expose for sale the articles which are most saleable, and which you most want to sell. 4. Sweep before your house ; and, if required, open a footway from the opposite side of the street, that passengers may think of you while crossing, and that all your neighbours may be sensible of your diligence.
Page 174 - ... strongly animadverting on the proceedings of "the magistrates and yeomanry at the memorable meeting of the people at Manchester. The letter was pronounced a libel, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the King's Bench, and to pay a fine of 1000?.
Page 350 - Because the forty-seven millions of acres in England and Wales would maintain in abundance as many human inhabitants, if they lived wholly on grain, fruits, and vegetables ; but they sustain only twelve millions scantily, while animal food is made the basis of human subsistence.
Page 346 - Because Nature appears to have made a superabundant provision for the nourishment of animals in the saccharine matter of roots and fruits; in the farinaceous matter of grain, seed, and pulse, and in the oleaginous matter of the stalks, leaves, and pericarps of numerous vegetables.
Page 351 - Because the practice of killing and devouring animals can be justified by no moral plea, by no physical benefit, nor by any allegation of necessity, in countries where there is abundance of vegetable food , and where the arts of gardening and husbandry are favoured by social protection, and by the genial character of the soil and climate.