The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 11J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page 130 - And the Lords declared, that they have power enough to proceed to trial, though the King should not name an High Steward." On the same day, " it is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the...
Page 141 - ... produced and examined in a criminal proceeding by a prosecutor disclaims all knowledge of any matter so interrogated, it is not competent for such prosecutor to pursue such examination, by proposing a question containing the particulars of an answer supposed to have been made by such witness before a committee of the House of Commons, or in any other place, and by demanding of him whether the particulars so suggested were not the answer he had so made.
Page 142 - Councillors, (constituted and appointed the GovernorGeneral and Council of the said United Company's Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, by an act of Parliament passed in the last session, intituled, " An act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe,") of the 29th of March, 1774, Par.
Page 225 - There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity : — the law of nature and of nations.
Page 13 - Parliament hath a judicial place, and can be no witness; and this is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum legem et consuetudinem parliament, and so the judges in divers parliaments have confessed.
Page 148 - ... published for the information of the Proprietors, can be received in evidence, in reply, to rebut the evidence, given by the defendant, of the thanks of the Court of Directors, signified to him on the 28th of June, 1785 ? 1 794, March 1. — Lords
Page 16 - by impeachments for high crimes and misdemeanors, by *' writing or speaking, the particular words supposed to be " criminal are necessary to be expressly specified in such
Page 153 - It states, that the mode of giving the opinions were unprecedented, and contrary to the privileges of the House of Commons. It states, that the Committee did not know upon what rules and principles the Judges had decided upon those cases, as they neither heard them, nor are they entered upon the journals.
Page 142 - Pa. 418. Answer. — The Lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer delivered the unanimous opinion of the Judges upon the question of law put to them on Friday, the 29th of February last, as follows : — " That, when a witness produced and examined in a criminal proceeding by a prosecutor disclaims all knowledge of any matter so interrogated, it is not competent for such prosecutor to pursue such examination, by proposing...
Page 153 - Par from it. It is from my confidence in our cause, and in the ability, the learning, and the constitutional principles which this House contains within itself, and which I hope it will ever contain, — and in the assistance which it will not fail to afford to those who with good intention do their...