 | 1902
...Sussex of three centuries ago. And so would Sussex. We — or our better forebears — have builded '"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 clerffy, or, in other... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - 1904
...death as the proper punishment for every felonious act. Blackstone tells us that even in his day it was a melancholy truth that among the variety of actions...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906
...in his pamphlet on the judicial system of his age, that, "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 one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | 1910
...speaking, are innocent of crime. According to Blackstone, when he wrote his Commentaries, there were, — "Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty, declared by Act of Parliament to be without benefit of clergy; or, in other... | |
 | 1911
...against poaching and pilfering, seldom escaped with their lives. "In 1769," according to Blackstone, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 1 60 have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy. " These actions included various... | |
 | V. K. Wellington Koo - 1912 - 359 страница
...speaking of the frequency of capital punishment found in the English law of his day, made this remark : " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."* Within these... | |
 | 1901
...Blackstone, who loved to extol "the wisdom and humanity of the laws of England." He pointed out, in 1769, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of... | |
 | Voltairine De Cleyre - 1914 - 471 страница
...all measure, the public will frequently, out of humanity, prefer impunity to it." Again Blackstone : "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies . . . worthy of instant... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1916 - 596 страница
...legislative justice and mercy he advocated, on reviewing it, said, "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 one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Stephen Haley Allen - 1916 - 1221 страница
...excluded from benefit of clergy or made capital by some subsequent act. Blackstone says (4 Com. 18) 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."... | |
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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... 
