 | David Robertson - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 618 pages
...treasonable acts, he adds, that " all risings, to ej/'ect these innovations of a public and gene588 ral concern by an armed force, are, in construction of...law, high treason, within the clause of levying war;" and he gives one principal reason, " that they have a direct tendency to dissolve all the bonds of... | |
 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 608 pages
...acts, he adds, that " all risings , to effect these innovations of a public and genc~ ral concern bij an armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of levying war;" and he gives one principal reason, " that they have a direct tendency to dissolve all the bonds of... | |
 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 552 pages
...insurrections to effect certain innovations of a public and general concern, by an armed force, to be, in construction of law, high treason within the clause of levying war. The cases put by Foster of constructive levying of war, all contain as a material ingredient, the actual... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - Accomplices - 1809 - 504 pages
...to open all prisons,—all risings 1S4> 153 '* in order to effect these innovations of a 2>vMick and general concern by an armed force are, in construction...treason, within the clause of levying war : for though they are not levelled at the person of the King, they are against his Royal Majesty ; and besides,... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...all labour, or to open all prisons, all risings in order to effect these innovations of a fiublic and general concern by an armed force, are in construction...treason, within the clause of levying war. For though they are not levelled at the person of the king, they are against/i/* royal majesty. And besides, they... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 754 pages
...open all prisons — all risings in order to effect these innovations of a public and ч ¡¡entrai armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of levying war. For though they are not levulted at the person of the king, they are against his royal majesty ; and besides,... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 520 pages
...to open all prisons — all risings in order to effect these innovations of a public and a general armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of levying war. For though they are not levelled at the person of the king, they are against his royal majesty ; and besides,... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 752 pages
...or to open all prisons— all risings in order to effect these innovations of a public and a general armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of levying war. For though they are not levelled at the person of the king, they are against Ais royal majesty ; and besides,... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 766 pages
...prisons — all risings in order to effect these innovations of npubltc and a general armed force, arc, in construction of law, high treason, within the clause of levying war. For though they are nol levelled at the person of the king, they arc against liis royal majesty ; and besides,... | |
 | William Brodie Gurney - Luddites - 1817 - 530 pages
...force of arms to open all prisons, and all risings in order to effect those innovations of a public and general concern by an armed force, are in construction...High Treason, within the clause of levying war ; for, says he, " Though they may not be levelled at the person of the King, they are against His Royal Majesty,... | |
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Insurrections in order to throw down all inclosures, to alter the established law, or change religion, — to enhance the price of all labour, or to open all prisons, — all risings in order to effect these innovations, of a public and general concern,... 
