A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1816 - Trials |
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... taken up by virtue of Press - Warrants ( n ) , and by force put aboard a ship and carried beyond sea ? If it be not lawful to commit to any but antient accustomed gaols , how comes it about that so many persons have been taken up by ...
... taken up by virtue of Press - Warrants ( n ) , and by force put aboard a ship and carried beyond sea ? If it be not lawful to commit to any but antient accustomed gaols , how comes it about that so many persons have been taken up by ...
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... taken to be true ; and so indeed it must : but then this should be a caution to Juries , how they find a man guilty of an Indictment generally without due proof of every part of it ; since every thing , which was proper for their ...
... taken to be true ; and so indeed it must : but then this should be a caution to Juries , how they find a man guilty of an Indictment generally without due proof of every part of it ; since every thing , which was proper for their ...
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... taken away , the only temptation of standing mute would be taken away too . 6. It has been esteemed an advantage of our Law , that it does not inflict various and cruel Deaths ; that which is inflicted for Treason is the only one ...
... taken away , the only temptation of standing mute would be taken away too . 6. It has been esteemed an advantage of our Law , that it does not inflict various and cruel Deaths ; that which is inflicted for Treason is the only one ...
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... taken in the execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or ...
... taken in the execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or ...
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... taken at length and entire ; and to this plan they adhered strictly , except in a few instances : but in preparing the second Edition , by the advice of several gentlemen of learning and curiosity , a greater latitude was taken , and as ...
... taken at length and entire ; and to this plan they adhered strictly , except in a few instances : but in preparing the second Edition , by the advice of several gentlemen of learning and curiosity , a greater latitude was taken , and as ...
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