 | 1902 - Liczba stron: 430
...Sussex of three centuries ago. And so would Sussex. We — or our better forebears — have builded '"Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clerffy, or, in other... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - 1904 - Liczba stron: 186
...death as the proper punishment for every felonious act. Blackstone tells us that even in his day it was a melancholy truth that among the variety of actions...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - Liczba stron: 718
...in his pamphlet on the judicial system of his age, that, "The first thing which strikes one is the melancholy truth that among the variety of actions...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | 1910 - Liczba stron: 548
...speaking, are innocent of crime. According to Blackstone, when he wrote his Commentaries, there were, — "Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty, declared by Act of Parliament to be without benefit of clergy; or, in other... | |
 | Charles Shirley Potts - 1910 - Liczba stron: 644
...the American Revolution. Blackstone writes in his Commentaries : "It is a melancholy truth that amoug the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies, without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | 1911 - Liczba stron: 750
...against poaching and pilfering, seldom escaped with their lives. "In 1769," according to Blackstone, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 1 60 have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy. " These actions included various... | |
 | V. K. Wellington Koo - 1912 - Liczba stron: 372
...speaking of the frequency of capital punishment found in the English law of his day, made this remark : " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."* Within these... | |
 | 1901 - Liczba stron: 930
...Blackstone, who loved to extol "the wisdom and humanity of the laws of England." He pointed out, in 1769, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of... | |
 | Voltairine De Cleyre - 1914 - Liczba stron: 492
...all measure, the public will frequently, out of humanity, prefer impunity to it." Again Blackstone : "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies . . . worthy of instant... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1916 - Liczba stron: 634
...legislative justice and mercy he advocated, on reviewing it, said, "The first thing which strikes one is the melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
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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... 
