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... CORONERS , elected now - a - days . ( Vide Lambard's Eerenarcha , cap . 3. ) The class of country gentlemen to whom allusion has been just made , and who were anciently entitled to act as " conservators of the king's peace , " virtute ...
... CORONERS , elected now - a - days . ( Vide Lambard's Eerenarcha , cap . 3. ) The class of country gentlemen to whom allusion has been just made , and who were anciently entitled to act as " conservators of the king's peace , " virtute ...
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... CORONER , whose duty it is , when a man is slain , to inquire by whom and by what means his death was actually ... Coroner's jury , upon inquests taken before him ; the power of summoning jurors is * It seems , that we are not indebted ...
... CORONER , whose duty it is , when a man is slain , to inquire by whom and by what means his death was actually ... Coroner's jury , upon inquests taken before him ; the power of summoning jurors is * It seems , that we are not indebted ...
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... coroner may send his precept to the constable of the hundred . * It is now the usual practice to summon the jury from the neighbourhood . † 66 By the 8th Hen . VI . cap . xix . it is enacted , that the inquiry shall be made by persons ...
... coroner may send his precept to the constable of the hundred . * It is now the usual practice to summon the jury from the neighbourhood . † 66 By the 8th Hen . VI . cap . xix . it is enacted , that the inquiry shall be made by persons ...
Page 55
... coroner ; and the constables or jurors in default shall be fined by the judge of assize † Coroners have no power to impose any fine or amercement ; and , though by the 53d section of the recent Jury Act , it is enacted that " if any man ...
... coroner ; and the constables or jurors in default shall be fined by the judge of assize † Coroners have no power to impose any fine or amercement ; and , though by the 53d section of the recent Jury Act , it is enacted that " if any man ...
Page 56
... coroner , by virtue of his office , from the operation of the Act , ) it would seem that the power thus conferred on coroners to fine defaulters , is only meant to apply to cases in which they hold in- quests by virtue of a writ of ...
... coroner , by virtue of his office , from the operation of the Act , ) it would seem that the power thus conferred on coroners to fine defaulters , is only meant to apply to cases in which they hold in- quests by virtue of a writ of ...
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Page 168 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same ? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 141 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.