A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 13Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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Page 143
... Judges consulting among themselves about the precept for the petty jury upon a late act of parliament , which has appointed six days for the jury to be summoned before they ap- pear to try any cause , and upon the last Act in Regulating ...
... Judges consulting among themselves about the precept for the petty jury upon a late act of parliament , which has appointed six days for the jury to be summoned before they ap- pear to try any cause , and upon the last Act in Regulating ...
Page 165
... judge of Nisi Prius is only to try the issue ; but now here the very record is before us , and we are judges of the record , as well as we are to asist the jury in trying the issue . Now take it in any other case of the like nature ...
... judge of Nisi Prius is only to try the issue ; but now here the very record is before us , and we are judges of the record , as well as we are to asist the jury in trying the issue . Now take it in any other case of the like nature ...
Page 173
... confounding the offices of the judge and jury . Mr. Phipps . If your lordships tried the va- lidity of our exceptions , and find occasion to indeed , where it is at the king's suit , 173 ] [ 174 for High Treason . A. D. 1696 .
... confounding the offices of the judge and jury . Mr. Phipps . If your lordships tried the va- lidity of our exceptions , and find occasion to indeed , where it is at the king's suit , 173 ] [ 174 for High Treason . A. D. 1696 .
Page 305
... judge of this matter and of the evidence . It is true , we are not to put in the case of a man's life , any forced and violent constructions upon any words or dis- courses ; but if the evidence be plain and clear , though he did not say ...
... judge of this matter and of the evidence . It is true , we are not to put in the case of a man's life , any forced and violent constructions upon any words or dis- courses ; but if the evidence be plain and clear , though he did not say ...
Page 319
... judge may award as many upon the Tales as he pleases , that there may be enough to remain after the challenges ; so that if this old pannel be not abated , and could not be quashed , and a Tales might be granted to consist of any number ...
... judge may award as many upon the Tales as he pleases , that there may be enough to remain after the challenges ; so that if this old pannel be not abated , and could not be quashed , and a Tales might be granted to consist of any number ...
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Page 433 - ... he presume not to come to the Lord's table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented...
Page 9 - You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence. So help you God.
Page 907 - ... and then it is added, if Mackean of Glenco, and that tribe, can be well separated from the rest, it will be a proper vindication of the public justice to extirpate that sect of thieves...
Page 413 - Order for the Visitation of the Sick, the priest is thus instructed : ' Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins if he find his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.
Page 159 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Page 427 - I do not say, but that, if any do find themselves troubled in conscience, they may repair to their learned curate or pastor, or to some other godly learned man, and show the trouble and doubt of their conscience to them, that they may receive at their hand the comfortable salve of God's Word...
Page 413 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession, the Priest shall absolve him (if he humbly and heartily desire it) after this sort.
Page 907 - Innergarie, and to destroy entirely the country of Lochaber, Locheal's lands, Kippoch's, Glengarie's, and Glenco ;" and then adds, " I assure you your power shall be full enough, and I hope the soldiers will not trouble the government with prisoners.
Page 269 - Queen and you upon your respective trials, [or, in a capital case, "upon your life and death "] ; if therefore you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them as they come to the book to be sworn, and before they are sworn, and you shall be heard.
Page 161 - ... not guilty ; and for his trial, hath put himself upon God and the country, which country you are. — Now, your charge is, to inquire whether he be guilty of the high treason in manner and form as he stands indicted, or not guilty.