Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: Partly Founded on Blackstone, Volume 4Butterworths, 1883 - Law |
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... 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 229 231 235 236 237 238 240 ibid . ibid . 242 ...
... 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 229 231 235 236 237 238 240 ibid . ibid . 242 ...
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... provisions by the master in the case of shipwreck . ( c ) De Off . 1. 3 , c . 5 . ( d ) Prov . vi . 30 . [ impropriety in admitting so dubious an excuse for by D 2 CH . II.- 35 -- -OF PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES .
... provisions by the master in the case of shipwreck . ( c ) De Off . 1. 3 , c . 5 . ( d ) Prov . vi . 30 . [ impropriety in admitting so dubious an excuse for by D 2 CH . II.- 35 -- -OF PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES .
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... provisions for ascertaining by the certificate of the prison surgeon and the ver- dict of a coroner's jury on the body of the offender , that the judgment of death has been executed . ( See 31 & 32 Vict . c . 24 , ss . 4 , 5. ) ( x ) Ff ...
... provisions for ascertaining by the certificate of the prison surgeon and the ver- dict of a coroner's jury on the body of the offender , that the judgment of death has been executed . ( See 31 & 32 Vict . c . 24 , ss . 4 , 5. ) ( x ) Ff ...
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... provisions were , in course of time , made against the offence of maiming , cutting off , or disabling a limb or member ( a ) . But these statutes have all been repealed , so far as regards the matter in question ( y ) ; and the provision ...
... provisions were , in course of time , made against the offence of maiming , cutting off , or disabling a limb or member ( a ) . But these statutes have all been repealed , so far as regards the matter in question ( y ) ; and the provision ...
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... provisions of 6 & 7 Vict . c . 96 ( ≈ ) , it is enacted , that if any person shall publish ( or threaten to publish ) any libel ( or directly or indirectly propose to abstain from printing or publishing , or offer to prevent the ...
... provisions of 6 & 7 Vict . c . 96 ( ≈ ) , it is enacted , that if any person shall publish ( or threaten to publish ) any libel ( or directly or indirectly propose to abstain from printing or publishing , or offer to prevent the ...
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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.