 I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...  Special Inquiry on Invasion of Privacy: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress - Page 4by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special inquiry Subcommittee on Invasion of Privacy - 1966Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1844 - 300 pages
...direction. When a new trial was moved for misdirection, his Lordship spoke these memorable words — " To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | Habeas corpus - 1863 - 286 pages
...ideas which struck the jury on the trial, and I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages. To enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish Inquisition — a law under wliich no Englishman would wish to... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 642 pages
...ideas which struck the jury on the trial, and I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages. To enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition — a law under •which no Englishman would wish to... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 462 pages
...a new trial was moved for misdirection, his Lordship made this solemn declaration of the law : — "To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...a new trial was moved for misdirection, his Lordship made this solemn declaration of the law : — "To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...a new trial was moved for misdirection, his Lordship made this solemn declaration of the law : — "To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | Ira M. Moore - Criminal law - 1876 - 920 pages
...papers on a search warrant, in order to obtain evidence against him, is clearly forbidden.4 Lord Camden said, " To enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish Inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | James Routledge - Electronic books - 1876 - 680 pages
...damages. Again, when a new trial was moved for on the ground of misdirection, the Lord Chief Justice said : — " To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish Inquisition — a law under which no Englishman would wish to live... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...practice have felt justified to quote the strong language of Lord Camden, in Enlick v. Carrlngton, that to " enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would like to live... | |
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