The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 23Butterworths, 1867 - Law |
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... direct an acquittal ; as it has always been considered in late times that , when a prisoner is once given in charge to a jury , he is entitled to an acquittal , if for any cause whatever the prosecutor is not able to make out his case ...
... direct an acquittal ; as it has always been considered in late times that , when a prisoner is once given in charge to a jury , he is entitled to an acquittal , if for any cause whatever the prosecutor is not able to make out his case ...
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... direct tendency to induce them to hold inquests in every case where any pretence for holding them existed ; but in this , as in other cases , it was thought that if the coroners received a fixed remuneration irrespective of the amount ...
... direct tendency to induce them to hold inquests in every case where any pretence for holding them existed ; but in this , as in other cases , it was thought that if the coroners received a fixed remuneration irrespective of the amount ...
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... direct and exclusive fruit of the services of the Madras division under Sir George Whitlock . This was the issue to be deter- mined in the cause . The Queen's warrant , which bore the date of the 10th June , 1864 , purported to refer to ...
... direct and exclusive fruit of the services of the Madras division under Sir George Whitlock . This was the issue to be deter- mined in the cause . The Queen's warrant , which bore the date of the 10th June , 1864 , purported to refer to ...
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... direct assistance in reducing Banda and Kirwee to submission , or in capturing the booty which resulted from those services . The Court of Admiralty was thus called upon to determine the validity or invalidity of this claim of joint ...
... direct assistance in reducing Banda and Kirwee to submission , or in capturing the booty which resulted from those services . The Court of Admiralty was thus called upon to determine the validity or invalidity of this claim of joint ...
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... direct or conscious contribution of endeavour to those events , or were even moving with their faces towards Banda and Kirwee . They were all meritoriously and arduously employed elsewhere in operations occupying their immediate ...
... direct or conscious contribution of endeavour to those events , or were even moving with their faces towards Banda and Kirwee . They were all meritoriously and arduously employed elsewhere in operations occupying their immediate ...
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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.