 | George Brodie - Constitutional history - 1866 - 590 pages
...VI., had laid a design to introdue the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture,...occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, • De Laud. Leg. Awj. c. 40. Sir Thomas Smith very closely (p. t Commomceaith, b.'ii. c. 27. 184,... | |
 | George Brodie - Constitutional history - 1866 - 598 pages
...VI., had laid a design to introdue the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture,...occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, * De Laud. Leg. Ang. c. 46. Sir Thomas Smith very closely (p. t Commonwealth, b. ii. c. 27. 184, b.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1869 - 694 pages
...VI., had laid a design to introduce tLj civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture...still remains in the Tower of London ; where it was occasionall}' used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...laid a design to intro" dace the civil law into this king" dom as the rule of government; " for the beginning thereof, they " erected a rack for torture...Daughter, and still " remains in the Tower of London, " (3 Inst. 35,) where it was occa" sionally used as an engine of " state, not of law, more than once... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...VI. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture;...daughter, and still remains in the tower of London (e); where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in the reign... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 658 pages
...the law of England ; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henrv VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil law into...daughter, and still remains in the tower of London ; (0) where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in the reign... | |
 | Anthony William Twyford - 1880 - 344 pages
...Sixth had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for the beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture,...still remains in the Tower of London, where it was more than once used as an engine of state, not of law, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But when, upon... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1883 - 734 pages
...laid a design to intro" ducc the civil law into this kiug" dom as the rule of government ; " for the beginning thereof, they ' ' erected a rack for torture ; which " was called in derision the Duko " of Exeter's Daughter, and still ' ' remains in the Tower of London, " (3 Inst. 35,) where it... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...design to introduce the civil law into the kingdom, as a rule of government. This instrument was termed in derision the duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tower of London. It existed in the civil law, and was adopted by the French and other foreign nations, who contrived... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 938 pages
...civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for the beginning thereof they erected a rack of torture, which was called in derision, the duke of...daughter, and still remains in the Tower of London." In the reign of Edward IV'. however, an instance occurs of the judicial employment of the rack. Sir... | |
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And the trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henry VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning... 
