 | 1786 - Liczba stron: 558
...Obferver, in reply, after qu.iticg Judge Biacklti-.jï's rcm.iik, that " it к л melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs ilian 160 have beca declared, by Act of Ku hament, to IK ibknies without beneh«. of clergy ;... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - Liczba stron: 528
...fucccflive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in, their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without... | |
 | Liczba stron: 482
...lucceSfive independent Statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lcl» than one hundred and fixty have been declared by afts of parliament to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - Liczba stron: 852
...fucceffive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. — It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions 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,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - Liczba stron: 620
...daily 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,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - Liczba stron: 590
...p. 12. i, " The first thing which strikes one upon entering on this task, is this melancholy truth, that, ' among the variety of actions which men are...and sixty have been declared by act of parliament tp be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' (4 Blackstone,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - Liczba stron: 464
...civilized nations in Europe? " It is a melancholy truth," (says the commentator on the laws of England*), " that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - Liczba stron: 338
...legislators, (g) In entering upon this task, the first thing which strikes one, is this " 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - Liczba stron: 494
...expressed his regret, that there were then no fewer than one hundred and sixty offences, which had been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy. At the largest allowance, and taking in all that are provided for at common law, as well as by statute,... | |
 | 1813 - Liczba stron: 716
...that of Draco of old, is written in letters of blood. " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone,* " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without... | |
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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... 
