It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without the benefit of clergy; or, in other words to be worthy of... The Condition and Fate of England ... - Página 56por Charles Edwards Lester - 1843Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 470 páginas
...melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies...without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be crimes which incur the penalty of capiial punishment, that is, death." In distinguishing between words... | |
| Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 472 páginas
...melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions -which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies...without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be crimes which incur the penalty of capital punishment, that is, death." In distinguishing bct'.veen... | |
| Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 724 páginas
...truth that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable " to commit, no less than 160 have " been declared by act of parliament " to be...without benefit of " clergy, or, in other words, to bo " worthy of instant death. So dread" ful a list, instead of diminishing, " increases the number... | |
| William Knox Wigram - 1881 - 500 páginas
...was King, ' that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament...felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, worthy of instant death.' The crimes of murder, manslaughter, rape, &c., as well as that of larceny,... | |
| Daniel Hack Tuke - 1892 - 670 páginas
...melancholy truth that among the variety of actions that men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament...felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, worthy of instant death." After the date at which Blackstone wrote, the next event of importance with... | |
| 1893 - 544 páginas
...fame of England during the reigns of the three Georges. "It is a melancholy fact," wrote Blackstone, "that among the variety of actions men are daily liable...sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be worthy of instant death." In the Colony of Massachusetts Bay there were only twentycapital offences,... | |
| Charles Richmond Henderson - 1893 - 296 páginas
...Blackstone says that ' among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." " Many of these were particular forms of felony. " However, after making all deductions on these grounds,... | |
| Daniel Wait Howe - 1899 - 476 páginas
...melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; in other words, to be worthy of instant death." He adds that so "dreadful a list, instead of diminishing,... | |
| 1901 - 938 páginas
...1/69, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of offenders usually executed at Tyburn, and the spectacle presented there when executions... | |
| 1902 - 430 páginas
...have builded '"Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clerffy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." — Blackstone, Commentaries, 1765. the... | |
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