 | Thomas Oliver Selfridge - Murder - 1807 - 182 pages
...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. In page 183, the author considers that species which consists in self-defence.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 712 pages
...further on it ii mentioned, when speaking of the tenderness of the Law of England, that it will not " suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would alio be punishable by death." A CONSTANT READER. tent, it is desirably that the name of the Author... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...house in the day time, unless it carries with it an attempt of robbing also ; for the law will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed would also be punished by death. In these instances of justifiable homicide, you will observe that... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 726 pages
...a capital crime, it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the pnrty. " But the law will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same crime, when committed, would be punished with death." And justifiable homicide rather deserves praise... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. (8) IN these instances of justifiable homicide, it may be observed... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...public peace, too careful of •the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. (8) IN these instances of justifiable homicide, it may be observed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1828 - 946 pages
...lord justice clerk concurred. The general doctrine of the law, even in England, was, that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, cpujd, be punished with death. Poaching would not be so punished. Spring-guns, his lordship observed,... | |
 | History - 1828 - 924 pages
...lord justice clerk concurred. The general doctrine of the law, even in England, was, that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if comjaitted, could, be pun.ish.ed \vitli death. Poaching would not be so punished. Spring-guns, his... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subject, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will it suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. In these instances of justifiable homicide, it may he observed, that... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. In these instances of justifiable homicide, it may be observed that... | |
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... suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. 
