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 11Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... justice ; and when they desire that which seems to accord with the rules of the law , they should have it . But it fell out so , that on the day when the Writ should have been returned , the Warden of the Fleet did not return it , as it ...
... justice ; and when they desire that which seems to accord with the rules of the law , they should have it . But it fell out so , that on the day when the Writ should have been returned , the Warden of the Fleet did not return it , as it ...
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... Justice saith , that sir John Markham told king Edw . 4 , that he could not arrest a man upou suspicion of felony or trea- son , as any of his subjects might ; because if he should wrong a ' man by such arrest , the parties could have ...
... Justice saith , that sir John Markham told king Edw . 4 , that he could not arrest a man upou suspicion of felony or trea- son , as any of his subjects might ; because if he should wrong a ' man by such arrest , the parties could have ...
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... justice ; and though it be a case which concerns himself in a high degree , yet he hath been so gracious and so just , as not to refuse to leave the examination and de- termination thereof to the laws of this kingdom . L. C. Justice . I ...
... justice ; and though it be a case which concerns himself in a high degree , yet he hath been so gracious and so just , as not to refuse to leave the examination and de- termination thereof to the laws of this kingdom . L. C. Justice . I ...
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... justice , which your lordship administers to all his subjects ; all justice is derived from him , and what he doth , he doth not as a private per- son , but as the head of the common wealth , as justiciarius regni , yea , the very ...
... justice , which your lordship administers to all his subjects ; all justice is derived from him , and what he doth , he doth not as a private per- son , but as the head of the common wealth , as justiciarius regni , yea , the very ...
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... justice , shall commit a man , shall not they be as careful to do the like justice to him ? But when the king saith to them , The commit- ment was by my warrant and commandment , will you question this , and whether this com- mitment be ...
... justice , shall commit a man , shall not they be as careful to do the like justice to him ? But when the king saith to them , The commit- ment was by my warrant and commandment , will you question this , and whether this com- mitment be ...
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Page 221 - England," it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 221 - Yet, nevertheless of late, divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners, in several counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an oath administered unto them not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm...
Page 223 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament ; and that none be called to make answer, or...
Page 223 - Seal have issued forth, by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law...
Page 223 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 223 - ... divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed ; and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order...
Page 221 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other, the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause...
Page 749 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 223 - Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of parliament...
Page 833 - ... he could not give a clearer testimony, that his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law which all other men believed not to be so.