A selection of cases from the State trials [in the ed. of T.B. Howell, 1816]. By J.W. Willis-Bund, Volume 2, Part 1 |
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Page xix
... passed away ; it is even doubtful if then any great development of the law by judicial deci- sion was possible . It is true that a special Act making the law of treason more severe during Charles's life was passed soon after the ...
... passed away ; it is even doubtful if then any great development of the law by judicial deci- sion was possible . It is true that a special Act making the law of treason more severe during Charles's life was passed soon after the ...
Page xxi
... passed . To us , regarding these laws after a lapse of two centuries , they appear pure persecution , as perhaps two hundred years hence , peace preservation acts may appear to our descendants . But each set of measures was amply ...
... passed . To us , regarding these laws after a lapse of two centuries , they appear pure persecution , as perhaps two hundred years hence , peace preservation acts may appear to our descendants . But each set of measures was amply ...
Page xxvii
... passed the line dividing sedition from treason ? The evidence against the prisoners though the evidence of accomplices , if credible , was quite sufficient to justify a conviction . It is at all times dangerous to trust to the evidence ...
... passed the line dividing sedition from treason ? The evidence against the prisoners though the evidence of accomplices , if credible , was quite sufficient to justify a conviction . It is at all times dangerous to trust to the evidence ...
Page xxxiv
... passing sentence were in the worst possible taste , but he is not the 1 P. 465 . 3 P. 471 . 2 13 Car . II . c . 1 , p . 53 . 4 Lives of C. J. 11. 256 . only judge whose remarks in sentencing a prisoner to die xxxiv State Trials .
... passing sentence were in the worst possible taste , but he is not the 1 P. 465 . 3 P. 471 . 2 13 Car . II . c . 1 , p . 53 . 4 Lives of C. J. 11. 256 . only judge whose remarks in sentencing a prisoner to die xxxiv State Trials .
Page xliv
... passed upon Scroggs without his being heard in his defence is the one subsequent writers have accepted and adopted . The reason is not far to seek . Both parties in the State were subsequently ashamed of their complicity in the Plot ...
... passed upon Scroggs without his being heard in his defence is the one subsequent writers have accepted and adopted . The reason is not far to seek . Both parties in the State were subsequently ashamed of their complicity in the Plot ...
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