 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 Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 312 Seiten
...and returned ; and jurors who give verdicts in cases of high treason ought to be freeholders. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. That for the redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 724 Seiten
...declares that excessive fines shall not be imposed (o); and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures,...persons, before conviction, are illegal and void, — a doctrine held long before : since thereby many times undue means and more violent prosecution... | |
 | George Roy Badenoch, Robert Potts - 1874 - 654 Seiten
...returned, and jurors, which pass upon men in trial 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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1874 - 820 Seiten
...have come down to us, are silent upon the subject. The English bill of rights of 1688 declared " that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." Stat. 1 W. & M. BOSS. 2, chap. 2, § 12. That article did not affect the power of the sovereign to... | |
 | 1874 - 778 Seiten
...have come down to us, are silent upon the subject. The English Bill of Rights of 1688 declared " that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." St. 1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2, § 12. That article did not affect the power of the sovereign to remit... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 726 Seiten
...void. And by the Bill of Rights at the Revolution, (1 1V. & M. st. 2, c. 2,) it was declared, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, (which is here the inquest of office,) were illegal and void; which indeed was the law of the land,... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 Seiten
...returned, and that juries which pass upon men in trials of high treason ought to be freeholders; That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, arc illegal and void; And that, for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening,... | |
 | Sheldon Amos - 1875 - 272 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. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 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. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 Seiten
...of king's bench, in the reign of king James the Second:) and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of...particular persons before * conviction, are illegal and r # 1 void. Now the Bill of Eights was only declaratory of the old consti- <- J tutional law: and accordingly... | |
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