A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings, and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecution, Volume 2, Part 1

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Isaac Riley, 1819 - Criminal law

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Page 158 - II. c. 1 1. that in every indictment and information for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom the oath was taken, (averring such court, or person or persons to have a competent authority to administer the same...
Page 61 - King there being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 36 - ... to intimidate, or overawe, both houses, or either house of parliament; or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade this realm...
Page 272 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 37 - SEC. 1. 1 hat if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States, or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open Court...
Page 20 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 172 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 274 - This offence is defined to be a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together, of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful, (e) (a) Ex part* Gupg, 8 LCR 353.
Page 36 - ... when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our lady his queen or of their eldest son and heir...
Page 390 - Goods to the great damage and common Nuisance of all the Liege Subjects of our said Lord the King...

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