A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 20Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... witnesses , and as universal custom is law , so I doubt not but it will be a nullity in any writing that is attested by witnesses , who are both or even one of them women . And though the act 1681 , mentions a subscribing witness with ...
... witnesses , and as universal custom is law , so I doubt not but it will be a nullity in any writing that is attested by witnesses , who are both or even one of them women . And though the act 1681 , mentions a subscribing witness with ...
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... witnesses with him into court , and they acknowledged themselves villeins , and swore to their consanguinity with the de- fendant ( r ) ; and if the plaintiff failed in ad- ducing such previous evidence , the judgment of the court was ...
... witnesses with him into court , and they acknowledged themselves villeins , and swore to their consanguinity with the de- fendant ( r ) ; and if the plaintiff failed in ad- ducing such previous evidence , the judgment of the court was ...
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... witness said , and that he was kept in prison by order of the governor . Mr. Peckham . Do you admit that he was hand - cuffed ? Serj . Davy . Yes , that he was hand - cuffed , and kept in the way described by the former witness . Q. Was ...
... witness said , and that he was kept in prison by order of the governor . Mr. Peckham . Do you admit that he was hand - cuffed ? Serj . Davy . Yes , that he was hand - cuffed , and kept in the way described by the former witness . Q. Was ...
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... witness goes on , country and of its commerce . and says the plaintiff's wife and two children applied to see the ... witness thinks hand- cuffed . It was afterwards admitted that he was . He was confined there four or five days . The ...
... witness goes on , country and of its commerce . and says the plaintiff's wife and two children applied to see the ... witness thinks hand- cuffed . It was afterwards admitted that he was . He was confined there four or five days . The ...
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... witnesses that the general bad the least self - interest to serve in this business of his own , no profit or advantage to ... witness always that no memorial , unless for mercy , could be understood to be separate and distinct from the ...
... witnesses that the general bad the least self - interest to serve in this business of his own , no profit or advantage to ... witness always that no memorial , unless for mercy , could be understood to be separate and distinct from the ...
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Page 657 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
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Page 247 - ... you, or by such further powers, instructions and authorities, as shall at any time hereafter be granted or appointed you, under our signet, and sign manual, or by our order in our privy council...
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Page 805 - ... you heard it in the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.'' We are far from thinking you capable of a direct deliberate purpose to invade those original rights of your subjects, on which all their civil and political liberties depend. Had it been...
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