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 51
... observe , is not denying the purport of the passage in the libel , but only the words in which the import was conveyed to the multitude , and we shall see afterwards whether the prisoner be correct in this part of his statement . He ...
... observe , is not denying the purport of the passage in the libel , but only the words in which the import was conveyed to the multitude , and we shall see afterwards whether the prisoner be correct in this part of his statement . He ...
Page 77
... observe , that there can be no limits to this right of petitioning , and previously de- liberating ; for when it is limited the right is gone . The right is to present unreasonable as well as reasonable petitions . Or if un- reasonable ...
... observe , that there can be no limits to this right of petitioning , and previously de- liberating ; for when it is limited the right is gone . The right is to present unreasonable as well as reasonable petitions . Or if un- reasonable ...
Page 79
... observe , that a seditious li- bel was dispersed over the country without any consequence being contemplated but that of inflaming the minds of the multitude . On the other hand , we have been at pains to shew , that the panels in this ...
... observe , that a seditious li- bel was dispersed over the country without any consequence being contemplated but that of inflaming the minds of the multitude . On the other hand , we have been at pains to shew , that the panels in this ...
Page 93
... observe the charac- ter of sedition as defined , or attempted to be defined , by my learned friend , and , indeed , by all the lawyers . I am not finding fault with my Lord Advocate for not properly defining sedition , because it is one ...
... observe the charac- ter of sedition as defined , or attempted to be defined , by my learned friend , and , indeed , by all the lawyers . I am not finding fault with my Lord Advocate for not properly defining sedition , because it is one ...
Page 95
... observe , in their own nature , unavoidably equivocal , and as to the true character of which no two men of opposite parties would form the same opinion . What , then , is sedition ? I do not object to the prosecutor's statement on the ...
... observe , in their own nature , unavoidably equivocal , and as to the true character of which no two men of opposite parties would form the same opinion . What , then , is sedition ? I do not object to the prosecutor's statement on the ...
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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