 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...of the court.p But now by statute 7 W.III. c.3. upon all trials of peers for treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in parliament shijH be summoned, at least twenty days before such trial, to appear and vote therein ; and every lord... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Crime - 1826 - 436 pages
...treason. It enacts, " That upon the trial of any Peer or Peeress either for treason or misprision, all the Peers, who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament, shall be summoned twenty days at least before every such trial, and that every Peer, so summoned and... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1827 - 490 pages
...cheat, and false accuser. He was, at the request of the commons, prosecuted by the attorney-general, and sentenced to stand in the pillory ; a disgrace...occasion. The commons rejected this amendment ; and a free con1691. ference ensued. The point was argued with great vivacity on both sides, which served only... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 492 pages
...cheat, and false accuser. He was, at the request of the commons, prosecuted by the attorney-general, and sentenced to stand in the pillory; a disgrace...notice should be given twenty days before the trial ; Und that every peer so summoned, and appearing, should vote upon the occasion. The commons rejected... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...of the court. But now, by stat. 7 W. III. c. 3, upon all trials of peers for treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in parliament shall be summoned at least twenty days before such trial to appear and vote therein ; and every lord... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...peerage. — Ibid. By 7 Will. 3, c. 3, s. 1 1, upon all trials of peers for treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in parliament shall be summoned at least twenty days before such trial to appear and vote therein; and every lord... | |
 | David Jardine - Great Britain - 1835 - 534 pages
...the Revolution in 1688, it was enacted, ' that, upon every trial of a peer for treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament, shall be summoned, at least twenty days before such trial, to appear and vote therein.' On the other... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...3. § 1 0. it is enacted, that upon the trial of any peers or peeresses, for treason or misprision, just and lawful, but means only two things. First, that whate shall be duly summoned twenty days at least before the trial, and every peer so summoned and appearing... | |
 | Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1836 - 540 pages
...in, passed by the Commons, and sent to the Lords for their concurrence, who added a clause to it, " that upon the trial of any peer or peeress for treason,...and vote in Parliament should be duly summoned to attend twenty days at least before the trial, and should vote at the trial of such peer or peeress."... | |
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... that upon the trial of any peer or peeress either for treason or misprision all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament shall be duly summoned twenty days at least before every such trial to appear at every such trial, and that every... 
