Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820].R. Bagshaw, 1814 - Trials |
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... witnesses , and as universal custom is law , so I doubt not but it will be a nullity in any writing that is attested by witnesses , who are both or even one of them women . And though the act 1681 , mentions a subscribing witness with ...
... witnesses , and as universal custom is law , so I doubt not but it will be a nullity in any writing that is attested by witnesses , who are both or even one of them women . And though the act 1681 , mentions a subscribing witness with ...
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... witnesses with him into court , and they acknowledged themselves villeins , and swore to their consanguinity with the de- fendant ( r ) ; and if the plaintiff failed in ad dacing such previous evidence , the judgment of the court was ...
... witnesses with him into court , and they acknowledged themselves villeins , and swore to their consanguinity with the de- fendant ( r ) ; and if the plaintiff failed in ad dacing such previous evidence , the judgment of the court was ...
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... witness said , and that he was kept in prison by order of the governor . Mr. Peckham . Do you admit that he was band - cuffed ? Serj . Davy . Yes , that he was hand - cuffed , and kept in the way described by the former witness . Q. Was ...
... witness said , and that he was kept in prison by order of the governor . Mr. Peckham . Do you admit that he was band - cuffed ? Serj . Davy . Yes , that he was hand - cuffed , and kept in the way described by the former witness . Q. Was ...
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... witness goes on , country and of its commerce . and says the plaintiff's wife and two children applied to see the ... witness thinks hand- cuffed . It was afterwards admitted that he was . He was confined there four or five days . | The ...
... witness goes on , country and of its commerce . and says the plaintiff's wife and two children applied to see the ... witness thinks hand- cuffed . It was afterwards admitted that he was . He was confined there four or five days . | The ...
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... witnesses that the general had the least seif - interest to serve in this business of his own , no profit or advantage to ... witness always that no memorial , unless for mercy , could be understood to be separate and distinct from the ...
... witnesses that the general had the least seif - interest to serve in this business of his own , no profit or advantage to ... witness always that no memorial , unless for mercy , could be understood to be separate and distinct from the ...
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Page 807 - ... which has attended your government, that you should never have been acquainted with the language of truth until you heard it in the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.
Page 21 - ... or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...
Page 539 - But neither the judgment of a concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction is evidence of any matter which came collaterally in question, though within their jurisdiction, nor of any matter incidentally cognizable, nor of any matter to be inferred by argument from the judgment.
Page 807 - There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled. Let us suppose it arrived. Let us suppose a gracious wellintentioned prince, made sensible at last of the great duty he owes to his people, and of his own disgraceful situation; that he looks round him for assistance, and asks for no advice, but how to gratify the wishes and secure the happiness of his subjects.
Page 819 - To honour them with a determined predilection and confidence in -exclusion of your English subjects, who placed your family, and, in spite of treachery and rebellion, have supported it upon the throne, is a mistake too gross even for the unsuspecting generosity of youth. In this error we see a capital violation of the most obvious rules of policy and prudence. We trace it, however, to an original bias in your education, and are ready to allow for your inexperience.
Page 245 - Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the Island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence, and in general, everything that depends on the said countries, lands, islands, and coasts...
Page 813 - They left their native land in search of freedom, and found it in a desert. Divided as they are into a thousand forms of policy and religion, there is one point in which they all agree — they equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Page 245 - ... the governors of our said colonies respectively, to erect and constitute, with the advice of our said councils respectively, courts of judicature and public justice within our said colonies, for the hearing and determining all causes as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and as near as may be agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 811 - The people of Ireland have been uniformly plundered and oppressed. In return they give you every day fresh marks of their resentment. They despise the miserable governor" you have sent them, because he is the creature of lord Bute ; nor is it from any natural confusion in their ideas, that they are so ready to confound the original of a king with the disgraceful representation of him.
Page 655 - In contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.