A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Heads, Volume 2S. Sweet, 1824 - Pleas of the crown |
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... COURTS of this kind are , 1. The court of the lord high steward , ch . 2 . 2. The court of king's bench , ch . 3 . 3. The court of the constable and marshal , ch . 4 . 4. The court of the justices of oyer and terminer , ch . 5 . 5. The ...
... COURTS of this kind are , 1. The court of the lord high steward , ch . 2 . 2. The court of king's bench , ch . 3 . 3. The court of the constable and marshal , ch . 4 . 4. The court of the justices of oyer and terminer , ch . 5 . 5. The ...
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... court or other officer hav- " ing the custody of the records of the court where such sentence " or order of transportation or banishment shall have been passed " or made , shall , at the request of any person on his majesty's " behalf ...
... court or other officer hav- " ing the custody of the records of the court where such sentence " or order of transportation or banishment shall have been passed " or made , shall , at the request of any person on his majesty's " behalf ...
Page xxxv
... court which is not of record , cannot impose any fine on an offender , nor award a capias against him , nor even hold plea of a common trespass vi et armis . From hence it clearly follows , that no proceedings of any court of criminal ...
... court which is not of record , cannot impose any fine on an offender , nor award a capias against him , nor even hold plea of a common trespass vi et armis . From hence it clearly follows , that no proceedings of any court of criminal ...
Page xxxv
... court ; and it is said , that all such courts , except the court - leet , may also imprison all such offenders . Also it seems , ( a ) that even a court - leet is so far intrusted with the ( a ) F. N. B. 82 . keeping of the peace within ...
... court ; and it is said , that all such courts , except the court - leet , may also imprison all such offenders . Also it seems , ( a ) that even a court - leet is so far intrusted with the ( a ) F. N. B. 82 . keeping of the peace within ...
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... COURT OF KING'S BENCH . THE whole jurisdiction which is now distributed among the several courts of Westminster - Hall , seems , in the first reigns after the conquest , to have been lodged in one court , commonly called The King's Court ...
... COURT OF KING'S BENCH . THE whole jurisdiction which is now distributed among the several courts of Westminster - Hall , seems , in the first reigns after the conquest , to have been lodged in one court , commonly called The King's Court ...
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Page 350 - ... within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey or Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 44 - ... to the true intent and meaning " of an act of parliament made in the eighteenth year of the reign " of his majesty King George the Second, intituled, an act to " amend and render more effectual an act passed in the fifth year *' of his present majesty's reign, intituled, an act for the further " qualification of justices of the peace...
Page 128 - And if they will not obey the arrest, they shall levy hue and cry upon them, and such as keep the town shall follow with hue and cry with all the town and the towns near, and so hue and cry shall be made from town to town, until that they be taken and delivered to the sheriff as before is said ; and for the arrestments of such strangers none shall be punished.
Page 59 - ... in any such action, by leave of the Court where such action shall depend, at any time before issue joined, to pay into Court such sum of money as he shall...
Page 69 - ... to appeal to the next general or quarter sessions of the peace for the county, riding, division...
Page 78 - Likewise it is to be inquired who were culpable, either of the act or of the force ; and who were present, either men or women, and of what age soever they be (if they can speak, or have any discretion). And how many soever be found culpable by inquisition, in any the manners aforesaid, they shall be taken and delivered to the Sheriff, and shall be committed to the gaol; and such as be founden, and be not culpable, shall be attached until the coming of (c) Rex v.
Page 60 - ... proving such warrant at the trial of such action the jury shall give their verdict for the defendant or defendants, notwithstanding any defect of jurisdiction in such justice or justices; and...
Page 41 - England shall be assigned for the keeping of the Peace, one Lord, and with him three or four of the most worthy in the County, with some learned in the Law...
Page xxxi - ... being legally convicted thereof, shall be liable to be " transported for any term not exceeding seven years, or to be " punished by imprisonment not exceeding two years, at the dis" cretion of the court in which such conviction shall be had...
Page 12 - To the constable it pertaineth to have cogni" zance of contracts touching deeds of arms and of war out of " the realm, and also of things that touch war within the realm " which cannot be determined nor discussed by the common law...