Tyranny in India. Englishmen robbed of the blessings of Trial by Jury, and English Criminal LawJ. Ridgway, 1850 - 106 էջ |
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... , is beyond all toleration . It is intended to convey some idea of the dangerous tendency of these Acts , which endanger all personal liberty . There never was greater occasion for the openly - expressed sympathy- of the INDIAN ...
... , is beyond all toleration . It is intended to convey some idea of the dangerous tendency of these Acts , which endanger all personal liberty . There never was greater occasion for the openly - expressed sympathy- of the INDIAN ...
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... liberty , which form the essence and glory of the British Constitu- tion . The Supreme Courts of Law , or her Majesty's Courts , were established in India at a very early period ; and the name of a Chief Justice of Cal- cutta , Sir ...
... liberty , which form the essence and glory of the British Constitu- tion . The Supreme Courts of Law , or her Majesty's Courts , were established in India at a very early period ; and the name of a Chief Justice of Cal- cutta , Sir ...
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... liberty of another , with no other guide than a record sent up from a lesser Court , prepared by a native , and which , in all probability , is a garbled , false statement . Who , endowed with a conscience , would like to play the judge ...
... liberty of another , with no other guide than a record sent up from a lesser Court , prepared by a native , and which , in all probability , is a garbled , false statement . Who , endowed with a conscience , would like to play the judge ...
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... liberty , Trial by Jury , blessings conferred on them by the English Parliament , of which they had been in the enjoy- ment a hundred and fifty years , and subjecting them , without any reason , to the dogmas of that highly moral book ...
... liberty , Trial by Jury , blessings conferred on them by the English Parliament , of which they had been in the enjoy- ment a hundred and fifty years , and subjecting them , without any reason , to the dogmas of that highly moral book ...
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... , must appear at first sight . What a powerful instrument of extortion ! What be- nighted regions those must be , where neither liberty , property , nor life , is safe for an hour , where a low constable posted in a remote village , 26.
... , must appear at first sight . What a powerful instrument of extortion ! What be- nighted regions those must be , where neither liberty , property , nor life , is safe for an hour , where a low constable posted in a remote village , 26.
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accuse appeal arrested assault attended bail barristers Bombay born subjects Botany Bay British subject British-born subjects burkundazes Calcutta charge Charter civil servants committed Company's Constitution conviction Council countrymen crime criminal Cruise declared district enactments English law Englishmen exemption false feelings fellow-countrymen Friend of India gagged gentlemen Governor Governor-General of India guilty hand Hindoos illegal imprisonment Indian Government indigo planter inflicted jail John Littler Judges and Magistrates jurisdiction Jurors Koran law of England liable liberty magis Magistrate Magistrate's Maho Mahomedan law Majesty's Courts Majesty's Justices measures medan Meerut ment Mofussil mooktear murder musket and bayonet myrmidons native Christians Native Courts necessary offence opinion outrage Parliament perjury persons pretended Pringle prisoner privileges proceedings protection punishment redress regulations repeal respect ropes rupees sent sentence sepoys Sir Elijah Impey spirit summons Supreme Court tion tive trates Trial by Jury tribunal verdict
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Էջ 15 - India ; and has not power to make any law affecting the authority of Parliament, or any part of the unwritten laws or Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereon may depend in any degree the allegiance of any person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or affecting the sovereignty or dominion of the Crown over any part of British India.
Էջ 14 - Council may be appointed, with power to make laws and regulations, under and by virtue of this Act : Provided always, that the said Governor-General in Council shall not have the power of making any laws or regulations which shall repeal or in any way affect any of the provisions of this Act : Or any of the provisions of the...
Էջ 14 - ... to make laws and regulations for all persons, whether British or native, foreigners or others, and for all courts of justice, whether established by His Majesty's charters or otherwise, and the jurisdictions thereof, and for all places and things whatsoever within and throughout the whole and every part of the said territories, and for all servants of the said Company within the dominions of princes and states in alliance with the said Company...
Էջ 8 - No Judge, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Collector or other person acting judicially shall be liable to be sued in any Civil Court for any act done or ordered to be done by him in the discharge of his judicial duty, whether or not within the limits of his jurisdiction: Provided that he at the time, in good faith, believed himself to have jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of...
Էջ 7 - Peace, Collector, or other person acting judicially, shall be liable to be sued in any Civil Court, for any act done or ordered to be done by him, in the discharge of his judicial duty, whether or not within the limits of his jurisdiction ; provided that he at the time in good faith believed himself to have jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of...
Էջ 14 - Company ; save and except that the said Governor-General in Council shall not have the power of making any laws or regulations which shall in any way repeal, vary, suspend, or affect any of the provisions of this act, or any of the provisions of the acts for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers and soldiers, whether in the service of His Majesty or the said Company, or any provisions of any act hereafter to be passed in anywise affecting the said Company or the said territories or the inhabitants...
Էջ 4 - Sessions Judge and Collector, renders them unfit to serve on the jury. Persons afflicted with any infirmity of body or mind, sufficient to incapacitate them from . serving. Persons who, by habit or religious vows, have relinquished all care of worldly affairs.
Էջ 1 - British subjects, wherever or of whatever parents born, as well as other persons in the territories under the Government of the East India Company, without the towns of Calcutta and Madras, and the town and island of Bombay, shall be amenable to the jurisdiction of the courts and magistrates of the East India Company.
Էջ 15 - ... affect any prerogative of the crown, or the authority of parliament, or the constitution or rights of the said company, or any part of the unwritten laws or constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whereon may depend in any degree the allegiance of any person to the crown of the United Kingdom...
Էջ 2 - Majesty's natural born subjects born in Europe, or the child of any such subject charged with any offence before them to be tried before the Supreme Court of Judicature, instead of trying and punishing him under this Act.