 | Christen Jensen - 1922 - 143 страница
...punishment to be found there in, inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes upon crimes very different in their natures....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;... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1924
...work, says : " 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... | |
 | 1874
...been and is the case in Britain. Blackptone, when writing in the reign of King George II., regretted that, " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160," he stated, " have bean declared by Act of Parliament to bo felonies without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1859
...Robbins v. The State. therein inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes upon crimes very different in their natures....which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or in other words,... | |
 | Gregory Claeys, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner - 1994 - 305 страница
...impunity to wicked men, that they may feel their punishment the heavier by a change of circumstances. * It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are dairy liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to... | |
 | Harriet C. Frazier - 2001 - 324 страница
...was English. Though England never experienced slavery, Blackstone wrote of English law in the 1760s: "It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies ... worthy of instant death."37... | |
 | Samuel Mendelsohn - 1891 - 270 страница
...comparatively recent date, extremely cruel and blood-thirsty. Blackstone states that in his time, "amoiig the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were held, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or,... | |
 | Rollin C. Hurd - 2010 - 677 страница
...THE CITIZEN. SECTION I. LIMITATIONS PUNITIVE OF CRIME. In 1765 it was written of the English law : It is a melancholy truth that, among the variety of...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... | |
 | Robin D. Gill - 2004 - 739 страница
...(EB,vi.pi73) and we can agree with Gladstone's observation, written in the second half of the 18 th century: "It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonius without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 331 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... | |
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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... 
