The Constitution of England: Or, An Account of the English Government: in which it is Compared Both with the Republican Form of Government and the Other Monarchies in EuropeH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 376 стор. |
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... jury was essentially of Saxon origin , this is not the fact . It was common to the Normans also , and to all the Teutonic or Gothic nations ; the number twelve also , jurati , or members of the Jurata ( jury ) as compurgators were even ...
... jury was essentially of Saxon origin , this is not the fact . It was common to the Normans also , and to all the Teutonic or Gothic nations ; the number twelve also , jurati , or members of the Jurata ( jury ) as compurgators were even ...
Сторінка 24
... juries were instituted in the Saxon period ; and there appears to me no doubt that their opinions are perfectly correct . - Ed . * The constitutional advantages gained by England becoming one country are owing chiefly to the tyranny and ...
... juries were instituted in the Saxon period ; and there appears to me no doubt that their opinions are perfectly correct . - Ed . * The constitutional advantages gained by England becoming one country are owing chiefly to the tyranny and ...
Сторінка 80
... jury , or committee , of fifteen members , formed in the following manner --Out of the members present , who must not be less than one hundred , forty - nine are drawn by lots out of these , each candidate strikes off one alternately ...
... jury , or committee , of fifteen members , formed in the following manner --Out of the members present , who must not be less than one hundred , forty - nine are drawn by lots out of these , each candidate strikes off one alternately ...
Сторінка 112
... jury ; so that , when , in a case of which the Court of Chancery has already begun to take cognizance , the parties happen to join issue on any particular fact ( the truth or falsehood of which a jury is to determine ) the Court of ...
... jury ; so that , when , in a case of which the Court of Chancery has already begun to take cognizance , the parties happen to join issue on any particular fact ( the truth or falsehood of which a jury is to determine ) the Court of ...
Сторінка 123
... jury , peculiar to the English nation , is admirably adapted to the nature of a free state . [ All that De Lolme states in this note , and much more that is tyrannical , unjust , and cruel , is now practised in several European states ...
... jury , peculiar to the English nation , is admirably adapted to the nature of a free state . [ All that De Lolme states in this note , and much more that is tyrannical , unjust , and cruel , is now practised in several European states ...
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Сторінка 342 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Сторінка 343 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Сторінка 189 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.
Сторінка 338 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Сторінка 77 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Сторінка 51 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown.
Сторінка 76 - 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.
Сторінка 344 - ... will entirely lose its force when it is shown by a reasonable exertion of the laws that the press cannot be abused to any bad purpose without incurring a suitable punishment, whereas it never can be used to any good one when under the control of an Inspector. So true will it be found that to censure the licentiousness is to maintain the liberty of the press."—Blackstone, B.
Сторінка 369 - DRESS AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. With an Historical Inquiry into every branch of Costume, Ancient and Modern.