| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...life, but by commission from God, the author of it ; and as the suicide is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the...this among the highest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, a felony committed on one's self. And this admits of accessories before the fact,... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...life, but by commission from God, the author of it ; and as the suicide is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the...• among the highest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, a felony committed on one's self. And this admits of accessories before the fact,... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1832 - 930 pages
...authority, but immediately from God ; and, says he, as the suicide is guilty of offence by evading the prerogative of the Almighty, and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for, the law has ranked it among the Mghest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, and holding him... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...but by commission from God, the author of it : and, as the suicide is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the...this among the highest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, a felony committed on one's • self. And this admits of accessaries before the... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...God, the author of it ; and, as the suicide is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty, and rushing into...all his subjects; the law has therefore ranked this amongst the highest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony, a felony committed on one's self.... | |
| Richard Clarke Sewell - Coroners - 1843 - 406 pages
...destroy life, but by commission of God, the author of it, the Suicide, is guilty of a double offence: one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the Almighty, and rushing into his presence uncalled for : and the other temporal, against the king, who has an interest in the preservation... | |
| 1844 - 592 pages
...authority. " The suicide," continues Blackstone, " is guilty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty and rushing into his...his subjects. The law has, therefore, ranked this amongst the highest crimes !" Hence, it appears, that the law recognizes no right of taking away his... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1844 - 268 pages
...authority. "The suicide," continues Blackstone, '-is gu'lty of a double offence ; one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty and rushing into his...immediate presence uncalled for; the other temporal, ng.iinst the king, who hath an interest in the preservation of all his subjects. The law has. therefore,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 1170 pages
...but by commission from God, the author of it, and as the suicide is guilty of a double offence — one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the...this among the highest crimes, making it a peculiar species of felony — % felony committed on one's self. A felo de se, therefore, is he that deliberately... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 1084 pages
...but by commission from God, the author of it : and, as the suicide is guilty of a double offence — one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the...the King, who hath an interest in the preservation (c) of all his subjects; the law has therefore ranked this anion^ the highest crimes, making it a peculiar... | |
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