The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 23Butterworths, 1867 - Law |
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... England Relating to Purity of Elections.- English and Irish Law and Chancery Commission . - Extinct Peerages . On the Report of the Capital Punishment Com- missioners . Contents of No. XLIII . ( NOVEMBER , 1866. ) Proposed Alterations ...
... England Relating to Purity of Elections.- English and Irish Law and Chancery Commission . - Extinct Peerages . On the Report of the Capital Punishment Com- missioners . Contents of No. XLIII . ( NOVEMBER , 1866. ) Proposed Alterations ...
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... England , were set out in order that they might be compared with the forms of an indictment and of criminal letters in Scotland , and we much regret that pressure of other matter should have prevented the forms in both countries from ...
... England , were set out in order that they might be compared with the forms of an indictment and of criminal letters in Scotland , and we much regret that pressure of other matter should have prevented the forms in both countries from ...
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... England , been lawfully married , according to the rites and cere- monies of the Established Church of England , to Sarah Ann Harvey , now or lately residing with Mrs Sophia Gover or Harvey , a widow , her mother , in or near Pile ...
... England , been lawfully married , according to the rites and cere- monies of the Established Church of England , to Sarah Ann Harvey , now or lately residing with Mrs Sophia Gover or Harvey , a widow , her mother , in or near Pile ...
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... England : for no doubt in early times in England the witnesses against a prisoner were not ex- amined in his presence till the trial , and our indictments have never condescended to the particularity of those in Scotland ; nay more , in ...
... England : for no doubt in early times in England the witnesses against a prisoner were not ex- amined in his presence till the trial , and our indictments have never condescended to the particularity of those in Scotland ; nay more , in ...
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... England , as far as our research backwards extends , we have seen no trace of this syllogistic form ; but there appears to have been a practice in early times of reciting the statute which created the offence , and , in such a case , if ...
... England , as far as our research backwards extends , we have seen no trace of this syllogistic form ; but there appears to have been a practice in early times of reciting the statute which created the offence , and , in such a case , if ...
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Page 221 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 135 - ... a counsel can maintain no action for his fees; which are given, not as locatio vel conductio, but as quiddam honorarium; not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand without doing wrong to his reputation...
Page 211 - The discretion of a Judge is the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper and passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is every vice, folly and passion to which human nature is liable.
Page 38 - Names, nor for omitting to state the Time at which the Offence was committed, in any Case where Time is not of the Essence of the Offence, nor for stating the Time imperfectly, nor for stating the Offence to have been committed on a Day subsequent to the finding of the Indictment or...
Page 231 - Secondly, This indulged Law was only to extend to Members of the Army, or to those of the opposite Army, and never was so much indulged as intended to be (executed or) exercised upon others...
Page 231 - The necessity of order and discipline in an army is the only thing which can give it countenance; and therefore it ought not to be permitted in time of peace, when the king's courts are open for all persons to receive justice according to the laws of the land.
Page 313 - Provided always that the court shall not have cognizance of any action of ejectment, or in which the title to any corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments, or to any toll, fair, market, or franchise, shall be in question...
Page 284 - Ireland whereon may depend in any Degree the Allegiance of any Person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or the Sovereignty or Dominion of the said Crown over any Part of the said Territories.
Page 30 - Society; being all to be used in evidence against both and each of you the said William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, at your trial, will, for that purpose, be in due time lodged in the hands of the clerk of the High Court...
Page 289 - I cannot see why one freeman should be used worse than another, merely upon account of his complexion.