 It is a 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; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant...  A History of the Criminal Law of England - Էջ 216James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 էջ
...liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inflant death. So dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifning, increafes the number of offenders. * -jt... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 էջ
...which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of inll.uit death.— So 4 • dreadful a6o dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifhing, increafcs the number... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 էջ
...liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inftant death. So dreadful a lift, infteadof diminiming, incrcafes the number of offenders. The injured,... | |
 | 1821 - 608 էջ
...daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number <>f offenders. The injured, through... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 էջ
...commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death;" and the catalogue has beean sine. e enlarged I- i . . . -t .- ;-.,;..!,.. The apology for many of those... | |
 | 1811 - 538 էջ
...commit, no leas than one hundred and i\ii/ have been de~ clared, by act of parliament, to be felony without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be •worthy of instant Jeatk." The number of capital punishments has been considerably augmented ,-ince the publication of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 էջ
...liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared, by a6l of parliament $, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through... | |
 | 1813 - 716 էջ
...commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." The same writer observes, that were even a committee appointed but once in an hundred years to revise... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 602 էջ
...liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 342 էջ
...are daily liable to commit, no less than two hundred have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. When we inquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue is composed, we shall... | |
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