Tyranny in India. Englishmen robbed of the blessings of Trial by Jury, and English Criminal LawJ. Ridgway, 1850 - 106 էջ |
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... standing on his trial before a native ma- gistrate , a Moslem dog ! It must be remembered there is now no office from which natives may be excluded , provided they possess the necessary qualifications . Imagine this Englishman , we say ...
... standing on his trial before a native ma- gistrate , a Moslem dog ! It must be remembered there is now no office from which natives may be excluded , provided they possess the necessary qualifications . Imagine this Englishman , we say ...
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... important personages . No one knows how soon he may stand arraigned before the very man , in whose society he passed the previous night , on a charge affecting his liberty and honour . Prior to these enactments , civilians ( 39.
... important personages . No one knows how soon he may stand arraigned before the very man , in whose society he passed the previous night , on a charge affecting his liberty and honour . Prior to these enactments , civilians ( 39.
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... stand a fair chance of being sent across the dark waters . This leads us to consider the state of feeling of natives towards Englishmen . The Indian Go- vernment is despotic , and holds the country by the bayonet . The natives look on ...
... stand a fair chance of being sent across the dark waters . This leads us to consider the state of feeling of natives towards Englishmen . The Indian Go- vernment is despotic , and holds the country by the bayonet . The natives look on ...
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... standing , held in such high estimation by the Indian services , that he is designated the " Saint . " As the evening star stands out promi- nently in the heavens , so did this paragon of holi- ness shine conspicuous amongst his ...
... standing , held in such high estimation by the Indian services , that he is designated the " Saint . " As the evening star stands out promi- nently in the heavens , so did this paragon of holi- ness shine conspicuous amongst his ...
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... stand among you this day a free man , instead of being a convict sentenced to work in irons upon the roads for the next seven or fourteen years of my life , I will not be unfaithful to that glorious privilege to which I and all of us ...
... stand among you this day a free man , instead of being a convict sentenced to work in irons upon the roads for the next seven or fourteen years of my life , I will not be unfaithful to that glorious privilege to which I and all of us ...
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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.