Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Том 4A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, 1791 |
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... these principles in the first concoction of the laws , and adopting in their ftead the impetuous dic- tates of avarice , ambition , and revenge ; from retaining the difcordant political regulations , which fucceffive conquerors of ...
... these principles in the first concoction of the laws , and adopting in their ftead the impetuous dic- tates of avarice , ambition , and revenge ; from retaining the difcordant political regulations , which fucceffive conquerors of ...
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... these grofs and atrocious injuries the private wrong is fwallowed up in the public : we feldom hear any mention made of fatisfaction to the individual ; the fatisfaction to the community being so very great . And indeed , as the public ...
... these grofs and atrocious injuries the private wrong is fwallowed up in the public : we feldom hear any mention made of fatisfaction to the individual ; the fatisfaction to the community being so very great . And indeed , as the public ...
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... these we are principally to speak : as thefe crimes are , none of them , offences against natural , but only against social , rights ; not even theft itself , unless it be accompanied with violence to one's house or person : all others ...
... these we are principally to speak : as thefe crimes are , none of them , offences against natural , but only against social , rights ; not even theft itself , unless it be accompanied with violence to one's house or person : all others ...
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... these illuftrious princeffes have , through- out their whole administration , inflicted the penalty of death : and the latter has , upon full perfuafion of it's being useless , nay even pernicious , given orders for abolishing it ...
... these illuftrious princeffes have , through- out their whole administration , inflicted the penalty of death : and the latter has , upon full perfuafion of it's being useless , nay even pernicious , given orders for abolishing it ...
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... these three species of punishment . The public gains equal fecurity , whether the offender himself be amended by whole- fome correction , or whether he be difabled from doing any farther harm and if the penalty fails of both these ...
... these three species of punishment . The public gains equal fecurity , whether the offender himself be amended by whole- fome correction , or whether he be difabled from doing any farther harm and if the penalty fails of both these ...
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Страница 18 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Страница 160 - Engrossing was also described to be the getting into one's possession, or buying up, large quantities of corn or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. This must of course be injurious to the public, by putting it in the power of one or two rich men to raise the price of provisions at their own discretion.
Страница 67 - In arbitrary states, this law, wherever it contradicts, or is not provided for by, the municipal law, of the country, is enforced by the royal power ; but since in England no royal power can introduce a new law, or suspend the execution of the old, therefore the law of nations (wherever...
Страница 235 - ... and unreclaimed, such as deer, hares, and conies, in a forest, chase, or warren ; fish, in an open river or pond ; or wild fowls at their natural liberty...
Страница 241 - ... the felonious and forcible taking from the person of another of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear...
Страница 232 - Lands, tenements, and hereditaments (either corporeal or incorporeal) cannot in their nature be taken and carried away. And of things likewise that adhere to the freehold, as corn, grass, trees, and the like, or lead upon a house, no larceny could be committed by the rules of the common law ; but the severance of them was, and in many things is still, merely a trespass : which depended on a subtilty in the legal notions of our ancestors.