| Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...See the Parliamentary History of England, vol. v. anno 16O5. t See the Bill of Rights, Art. x. — " Excessive bail " ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed: " nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." kings, to make justice to be " executed with mercy."• CHAPTER... | |
| 1804 - 372 pages
...life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. XXII. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted, by the courts of law. XXIII. That all warrants, without oath... | |
| William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned, and... | |
| William Cobbett - 1809 - 860 pages
...and debates or proceedings in parliament, ' ought not to be impeached or questioned in ' any court or place out of parliament. 10. ' That excessive bail...to be required, ' nor excessive fines imposed ; nor cruel and ' unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That m ' rors ought to be duly impanelled and returned;... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament; that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted , that jurors ought to be duly impanuelled arid returned, and... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1809 - 646 pages
...sentence to be incompatible with the spirit of that provision of the bill of rights, which says, that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel arid unusual punishment* indicted. The learnrd countel concluded with expressing tm conviction... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pages
...Parliament, ought not to be im" peached, or questioned, in any Court or place out " of Parliament." " That excessive bail ought not to be required, " nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual " punishments inflicted." " That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and " returned... | |
| Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...Parliament, ought not to be im" peached, or questioned, in any Court or place out " of Parliament." " That excessive bail ought not to be required, " nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual " punishments inflicted." " That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and " returned... | |
| William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pages
...REQUIRING EXCESSIVE BAIL. By the declaration of rights of Virginia, article 9, it is declared, " That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel nor unusual punishments inflicted." The same principle is adopted in the amendments to the constitution... | |
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