 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...impeachment, speaks thus : " As to the trial itself, it must of course vary in external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not formed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution,... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...impeachment, speaks thus ; " As to the trial itself, it must of course vary w external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes ami punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not formed to alter the law, but to carry it into more... | |
 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - Impeachments - 1805 - 396 pages
...evidence, the fame legal notions of crimes and punifhments prevail. For impeachments are not f Trained to alter the law, but to carry it into ! more effectual execution where it might be ob1 ftruited by the influence of to* powerful delinquents, or not cafily difccrned... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 238 pages
...irn'peachment, it is thus laid down ; " As to the trial itself, it must of course vary in external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it injo more effectua! execution,... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 240 pages
...inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution, where it might be obstructed, by the influence of too powerful delinquents, or not easily discerned... | |
 | Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 248 pages
...laid down ; " As to the (rial itself, it must of couise vary in external ceremony, but differs not iu essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior...courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notion» of crimes and punishments prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...legal judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem. Seld. Jud. 168, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony,...evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1830 - 404 pages
...judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem. Seld. Jud. 168 — 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony,...the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem.— Seld. Jud. 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony,...the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution... | |
 | Constitutions - 1837 - 240 pages
...judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem. Seld. Jud. 168 — 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony,...the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution... | |
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This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed... 
