Considerations on Criminal LawSaunders, 1772 - 434 páginas |
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... person offending , or of others by the example of his fate ; for revenge , when it only confiders the offence paft , is nothing but triumph and vain glory , and is directed to no end . G 3 With With refpect to property in a ftate of na ...
... person offending , or of others by the example of his fate ; for revenge , when it only confiders the offence paft , is nothing but triumph and vain glory , and is directed to no end . G 3 With With refpect to property in a ftate of na ...
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... person injured ; confequently , in fuch a ftate , the measure of revenge muft be various and uncertain . Men of irritable and vindictive natures will exprefs greater refentment on account of fome flight injury , than others of more ...
... person injured ; confequently , in fuch a ftate , the measure of revenge muft be various and uncertain . Men of irritable and vindictive natures will exprefs greater refentment on account of fome flight injury , than others of more ...
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... person of the strongest . * Thus the nature of things would teach men , that , the best title to peace and fecu rity , is to do juftice . But though the light of reafon points out the truth of this ax- iom to every intelligent being ...
... person of the strongest . * Thus the nature of things would teach men , that , the best title to peace and fecu rity , is to do juftice . But though the light of reafon points out the truth of this ax- iom to every intelligent being ...
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... person in whom they could confide , and appointed him Chief Magiftrate , under the obligation of judging all cafes agreeable to fuch stated Laws , and of directing execution accordingly . Hence perhaps , ftrictly confidered , we may ...
... person in whom they could confide , and appointed him Chief Magiftrate , under the obligation of judging all cafes agreeable to fuch stated Laws , and of directing execution accordingly . Hence perhaps , ftrictly confidered , we may ...
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... person whatever . This court formerly exercised autho rity only in criminal matters , and pleas of the crown ; but now it is divided into a crown fide and a plea fide ; the one deter mining criminal , and the other civil causes . BOOK ...
... person whatever . This court formerly exercised autho rity only in criminal matters , and pleas of the crown ; but now it is divided into a crown fide and a plea fide ; the one deter mining criminal , and the other civil causes . BOOK ...
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abfurd againſt arifes becauſe cafes capital puniſhments Carneades caſes caufes cauſes CHAP Cicero circumftances civil civil Laws confcience confequently confideration confidered conftitution Covarruvias crime Criminal Laws death degree delinquent difpofitions diftinction effects eſtabliſhed exerciſe exift exiſtence faid fame fays fecurity feems fenfe fenfible feverity fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt flain focial fociety fome fovereign fpecies ftate ftill fubfiftence fubject fuch a ſtate fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fupport fyftem Grotius High Treafon himſelf human increaſe inflicted inftance inftitutions injuftice injured intereft itſelf Judge juft juftice jurifdiction Jury juſt Law of Nature lefs Legiſlators likewife magiftrate mankind meaſure ment moft moral moſt muft murder muſt neceffary neceffity nevertheleſs niſhments obferves obligation occafion offences ourſelves paffion peace perfon perly pofition political prefent principles Puffendorf purpoſe reaſon refpect revenge SECT ſeems ſeverity ſhall ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion ture uſe virtue
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Página 9 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 254 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 132 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately, and not the fact by itself ; so as though they answer not singly to the question what is the law, yet they determine the law in all matters, where issue is joined and tried in the principal Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ. case, but [ie except] where the verdict is special.
Página 223 - I am one, , Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have fo incens'd, that I am recklefs what I do, to fpite the world. 1 Mur. And I another, So weary with difafters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would fet my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't.
Página xxiv - ... What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Página 46 - For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Página 291 - If a man counterfeit the King's money; and if a man bring false money into the realm counterfeit to the money of England, knowing the money to be false, to merchandise and make payment withal.
Página 417 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Página xxix - ... happily force their way to the thrones of princes be it known to them, that they come attended with the...
Página 134 - L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs.