A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 33Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1826 - Trials |
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Page 33
... Common " was handed to the witness . ] Mr. Grant . - Were these the terms of the petition ? -As far as my judgment serves me , that is the substance of the petition . Have you any doubts whether this is the same petition ? -I have none ...
... Common " was handed to the witness . ] Mr. Grant . - Were these the terms of the petition ? -As far as my judgment serves me , that is the substance of the petition . Have you any doubts whether this is the same petition ? -I have none ...
Page 89
... common with many persons , was of opinion , that it might tend at least to prevent their recurrence . He certainly did favour the professed object of the meeting , and in this , if his guilt began , it also ended . He undis- guisedly ...
... common with many persons , was of opinion , that it might tend at least to prevent their recurrence . He certainly did favour the professed object of the meeting , and in this , if his guilt began , it also ended . He undis- guisedly ...
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... common and almost obsolete Whig topic , and to show that it was not from that quarter that danger was to be apprehended . I say that this was obviously its meaning , if indeed it is not rather to be regarded as a piece of mere ...
... common and almost obsolete Whig topic , and to show that it was not from that quarter that danger was to be apprehended . I say that this was obviously its meaning , if indeed it is not rather to be regarded as a piece of mere ...
Page 131
... common sense , and by that test to determine whether it is seditious or not . It has been held , again and again , to be no justification , in a charge of sedition , that language even of a more seditious tendency had been used in or ...
... common sense , and by that test to determine whether it is seditious or not . It has been held , again and again , to be no justification , in a charge of sedition , that language even of a more seditious tendency had been used in or ...
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... common law of Scotland ; neither the nature of the offence itself , nor the manner in which it is to be charged , is pointed out by any precedents or authorities familiar to your Lordships . It is an offence recently introduced by a ...
... common law of Scotland ; neither the nature of the offence itself , nor the manner in which it is to be charged , is pointed out by any precedents or authorities familiar to your Lordships . It is an offence recently introduced by a ...
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act of parliament administered alleged annual parliaments Arthur Thistlewood Baird bind the person bind to commit Brunt called Cato-street charge circumstances clause commit treason counsel Court crime criminal Crown declarant diet doubt duty endeavours evidence expressions fact felony Glasgow guilty heard high treason indictment Ings intending to bind James John judge jury Kilmarnock learned friend legislature levying libel lord advocate Lord Chief Justice Lord Justice Lord Justice Clerk lordships M'Laren means meeting ment mentioned ministers minor proposition murder oath or engagement objection obligation offence opinion overt act panel particular party persons taking petit treason physical strength pleaded present prince regent prisoner proved public prosecutor punishment purporting or intending purpose question recollect relevancy remember Scotland sedition speech statute suppose taken thing Thistlewood Tidd tion told traitors trial tried universal suffrage verdict William William Davidson witness words