 That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Seite 8831809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1853 - 364 Seiten
...returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. * This does not repeal the as may tend to terrify the peostatute of Charles II. against pie, or indicate... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 Seiten
...Commentaries, vol. and jurors which pass upou men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | James White - 1855 - 308 Seiten
...and servants of the prosecutor, by which a hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...persons before conviction, are illegal and void." This put an end to the bestowal of the spoils of a person under trial on some favourite of the king,... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 Seiten
...matter of criminal jurisprudence. It stands as a constitutional article in the Bill of Rights, that " all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." An illustration of the usage in this respect that had prevailed occurs in Reresby's memoirs: — On... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1857 - 340 Seiten
...in the reign of Charles II., illustrates the importance of that clause of the Bill of Rights " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." Sir John Reresby relates, in his Memoirs, that a foolish and scandalous report had got abroad, that... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1857 - 440 Seiten
...punishments ; also the erection of the Ecclesiastical Commission, or any similar court ; it declares grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, void ; claims the right of keeping arms for Protestants ; free election to, and freedom of speech in,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1858 - 718 Seiten
...officers of the crown sitting in parliament (see as to this, sup. p. 372). (x) Plowd. 55. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 560 Seiten
...returned ; and jurors, which pass upon men in trials of high-treason, ought to be freeholders : That all grants, and promises of fines, and forfeitures...particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void : And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 Seiten
...returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. " 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. " 13. That for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 304 Seiten
...and servants of the prosecutor, by which at hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures'...persons before conviction, are illegal and void." . This put an end to the bestowal of the spoils of a person under trial on some favourite of the king,... | |
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