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The Percy Anecdotes. Original and Select: Justice - Crime & Punishment. 8 Sholto and Reuben Percy Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1823 |
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Էջ 114 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. The humble Petition of Ralph Griffith, Esq.
Էջ 59 - Jennings, whom they found fast asleep ; his pockets were searched, and from one of them was drawn a purse containing exactly nineteen guineas, which the gentleman identified. Jennings was dragged out of bed and charged with the robbery. He denied it most solemnly ; but the facts having been deposed to on oath by the gentleman and Mr Brunell, he was committed for trial. So strong did the circumstances appear against Jennings, that several of his friends advised him to plead guilty, and throw himself...
Էջ 9 - Roman law, parricide, or the murder of one's parents or children, was punished in a much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into the sea...
Էջ 79 - The agreement of twelve men is a verdict in law; and such a one being given by the jury, 'I require the clerk of the peace to record it, as he will answer it at his peril.' And if the jury bring in another. verdict contrary to this, I affirm they are perjured men in law. [And looking upon the jury, said] 'You are Englishmen; mind your privilege, give not away your right.
Էջ 1 - Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
Էջ 81 - Shaftesbury had more law than all his judges and more divinity than all his bishops.
Էջ 76 - You must not think that I am able to run up so many years, and over so many adjudged cases, which we call Common Law, to answer your curiosity. Penn: This answer, I am sure, is very short of my question; for, if it be common, it should not be so hard to produce.
Էջ 75 - Recorder: Well, the court sets forty marks a piece upon your heads, as a fine for your contempt of the court. Penn: I desire it might be observed that we came into the court with our hats off (that is, taken off), and if they have been put on since, it was by order from the bench; and therefore not we, but the bench should be fined.
Էջ 110 - The knout whip is fixed to a wooden handle a foot long, and consists of several thongs, about two feet in length, twisted together, to the end of which is fastened a single tough thong of a foot i. 3 and a half in length, tapering towards a point, and capable of being changed by the executioner when too much softened by the blood of the criminal.
Էջ 51 - Southampton, and certain worthy gentlemen, who taking into their consideration that the plantation can never flourish till families be planted, and the respect of wives and children for their people on the soil...