 | William Knox Wigram - 1881 - 481 страница
...superadded. ' It is a melancholy truth,' observed Blackstone, writing when George the Third was King, ' 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... | |
 | Twynihoe William Erle - 1882 - 152 страница
...a century ago, denounced the sanguinary barbarity which disgraced English law in his time. He said, "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883
...statutory enactments. I have already l quoted the well-known passage in which Blackstone laments " that among the variety of actions " which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hun" died and sixty are declared by Act of Parliament to be i Cam. iv. 18. 2 1 6 BENTHAM. CH. XXf.... | |
 | 1883
...being studied not only without disgust but with interest and profit." He lamented, as well he might, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 1GO are declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies worthy of instant death. The next era in criminal... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1896
...fixed upon the offender by slitting his nostrils or branding in the hand or cheek.2 Blackstone laments that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889
...Blackstone, who loved to extol the Biackstonc. humanity of the laws of England. He pointed out in 17G9 that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy."*... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1896
...fixed upon the offender by slitting his nostrils or branding in the hand or cheek.2 Blackstone laments that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891
...public injury. In entering upon this task (says Romilly), the first thing which strikes one is the 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... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1893 - 277 страница
...without benefit of clergy. In the second edition of the Commentaries, published in 1769, Blackstone says that ' among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." " Many of these... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1894 - 431 страница
...explanatory observations. stone, commenting on the severity of the English law at the time he wrote, says : " It is a melancholy " truth that among the variety...which men " are daily liable to commit, no less than one hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parlia" ment to be felonies without benefit of... | |
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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... 
