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anathema Animalia animaux anno premissis Bailly beasts Bishop of Lausanne brute burned capital punishment cause century Chassenée Chiavenna Church Claude Morel committed condemned conjuration coram nobis Côte-d'Or court crime criminal curse Dates Animals Places death declared defendants demon deniers deodand devils devouring diabolical dicta Animalia dicte dictorum Animalium divine Dormelles dudit ecclesiastical egregius esté estre evil excom excommunication execution exorcism fait Fillioli generalis Maurianne holy human Information Dates Animals inger inhabitants insects Jehan judicial judicialiter coram nobis jurist justice killed kind ladite ledit Lerouge lieu locusts lower animals malediction mediæval Mémoires mensis ment moral murder Paris parish Parliament of Paris Parsi penalty persons plaintiffs priest procurator procureur prosecution punishment qu'il qu'on quod raison rats Sancti Julliani Satan Savigny scel Schweinfurt secret manuscrit sentence serpents Slavonia spirit summons sweet beasts tion trial tribunal truye vermin Vicario Vide Appendix viii Weevils
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Page 61 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Page 246 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 168 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 180 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Page 180 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Page 146 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 167 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Page 104 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 43 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 153 - Boer (Decis., 136, n. 5) cites the case of a certain Johannes Alardus, or Jean Alard, who kept a Jewess in his house in Paris and had several children by her : he was convicted of sodomy on account of this relation and burned, together with his paramour, ' since coition with a Jewess is precisely the same as if a man should copulate with a dog