 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...Highness the Bashaw, otherwise immediate punishment follows conviction. The above-named officer iits and hears causes for a certain number of hours every...permitted to speak with a degree of freedom which would *hock the feelings of an European sovereign. ' The bastinado is usually inflicted from one hundred... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1835 - 466 pages
...business ; on which occasions every man acts as his own advocate, and in defending himself is allowed to speak with a degree of freedom which would shock the feelings of a European sovereign.* The bastinado is the punishment usually inflicted for all minor wickednesses... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1837 - 358 pages
...business ; on which occasions every man acts as his own advocate, and, in defending himself, is allowed to speak with a degree of freedom which would shock the feelings of a European sovereign.* The bastinado is the punishment usually inflicted for all minor wickednesses... | |
 | Child rearing - 1842 - 358 pages
...business ; on which occasions every man acts as his own advocate, and, in defending himself, is allowed to speak with a degree of freedom which would shock the feelings of a European sovereign.* The bastinado is the punishment usually inflicted for all minor wickednesses... | |
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The above-named officer sits and hears causes for a certain number of hours every day. The Bashaw also presides in his Hall of Justice according to the pressure of business and number of causes to be tried ; every man pleads his own cause ; and the meanest... 