Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: Partly Founded on Blackstone, Volume 4Butterworths, 1883 - Law |
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... NATURE OF CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS . Of the Distinction between Crimes and Civil Injuries Of Misdemeanors and Felonies Of the Right to inflict Punishment Of the Object of Punishment Of the Measure of Punishment CHAP . II . OF THE ...
... NATURE OF CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS . Of the Distinction between Crimes and Civil Injuries Of Misdemeanors and Felonies Of the Right to inflict Punishment Of the Object of Punishment Of the Measure of Punishment CHAP . II . OF THE ...
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... Nature Of Selling Unwholesome Provisions Of Common Nuisances Of Lewdness Of Drunkenness Of Furious Driving Of Cruelty to Animals Of Taking up Dead Bodies Of Refusing to serve a Public Office Of Vagrancy , & c . .. PAGE 229 231 235 236 ...
... Nature Of Selling Unwholesome Provisions Of Common Nuisances Of Lewdness Of Drunkenness Of Furious Driving Of Cruelty to Animals Of Taking up Dead Bodies Of Refusing to serve a Public Office Of Vagrancy , & c . .. PAGE 229 231 235 236 ...
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... NATURE OF CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS . WE are now arrived at the sixth and last branch of the Commentaries ; which treats of public wrongs , or crimes . For it will be remembered that wrongs were divided into two species ; the one ...
... NATURE OF CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS . WE are now arrived at the sixth and last branch of the Commentaries ; which treats of public wrongs , or crimes . For it will be remembered that wrongs were divided into two species ; the one ...
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... nature of crimes and their punishment : the discussion and admeasurement of which forms , in every country , the code of criminal law ; or , as it is more usually denominated with us in England , the doctrine of the " pleas of the crown ...
... nature of crimes and their punishment : the discussion and admeasurement of which forms , in every country , the code of criminal law ; or , as it is more usually denominated with us in England , the doctrine of the " pleas of the crown ...
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... nature , in ( f ) " All crimes affect the public , and most crimes specially affect in- dividuals . But in some the injury to the public is most obvious , in others the injury to individuals . " ( Report of the Criminal Code Bill ...
... nature , in ( f ) " All crimes affect the public , and most crimes specially affect in- dividuals . But in some the injury to the public is most obvious , in others the injury to individuals . " ( Report of the Criminal Code Bill ...
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Page 272 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen (or workmen and workmen) shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 131 - Chattel, Money, or valuable Security, which shall be delivered to or received or taken into possession by him for or in the Name or on the Account of his Master or Employer...
Page 372 - Law of the Land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by Authority of Parliament, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, should be put out of his Land or Tenements, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to Death, without being brought to answer by due Process of Law : V.
Page 237 - No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser...
Page 49 - Wherefore, to excuse homicide by the plea of self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had no other possible (or at least probable) means of escaping from his assailant.
Page 230 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testaments...
Page 93 - That if any person, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife,' whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling aiding or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Page viii - The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals...
Page 97 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Page 216 - This general law is founded upon this principle — that different nations ought In time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little harm as possible, without prejudice to their own real interests.