The English Reports: Crown cases (1743-1865), Volume 168W. Green, 1925 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... clergy , and directed that they should be boiled to death . The 1 E. VI . c . 12 , s . 2 , reduced all treasons to the antient standard of the 25 E. III . This was a virtual repeal of the 22 H. VIII . and so , in the judgment of the ...
... clergy , and directed that they should be boiled to death . The 1 E. VI . c . 12 , s . 2 , reduced all treasons to the antient standard of the 25 E. III . This was a virtual repeal of the 22 H. VIII . and so , in the judgment of the ...
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... clergy ? ) [ S. C. 1 Leach , 66 n . Referred to , R. v . Royce , 1767 , 4 Burr . 2073. ] At the Lent assizes for the county of Gloucester 1749 , John Midwinter and Richard Sims were tried before Mr. Justice Foster on an indictment ...
... clergy ? ) [ S. C. 1 Leach , 66 n . Referred to , R. v . Royce , 1767 , 4 Burr . 2073. ] At the Lent assizes for the county of Gloucester 1749 , John Midwinter and Richard Sims were tried before Mr. Justice Foster on an indictment ...
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... clergy ; since aiders and abettors are no- where mentioned in the Act , and Acts of so penal a nature ought to be construed literally and strictly . Where , " to use the words of Lord Chief - Justice Hale ( 2 Hale , 335 , 336 ) , " a ...
... clergy ; since aiders and abettors are no- where mentioned in the Act , and Acts of so penal a nature ought to be construed literally and strictly . Where , " to use the words of Lord Chief - Justice Hale ( 2 Hale , 335 , 336 ) , " a ...
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... clergy . " He adds , " And the like law had been upon the statute 5 & 6 Edw . VI .; for these statutes only exclude the parties that actually take out of the dwelling - house , not those that are present and assenters , as hath been ...
... clergy . " He adds , " And the like law had been upon the statute 5 & 6 Edw . VI .; for these statutes only exclude the parties that actually take out of the dwelling - house , not those that are present and assenters , as hath been ...
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... clergy ? What , as I have heard , principally weighed with the majority of the judges , in the case of Sims , was the construction which hath been constantly put on Acts of Parliament touching high treason , and on those which take away ...
... clergy ? What , as I have heard , principally weighed with the majority of the judges , in the case of Sims , was the construction which hath been constantly put on Acts of Parliament touching high treason , and on those which take away ...
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