 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...  Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield - Página 309por Gilbert Wakefield - 1804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 páginas
...multitude of fucccflive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in, their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 páginas
...multitude of fucceffive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. — It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 páginas
...civilized nations in Europe? " It is a melancholy truth," (says the commentator on the laws of England*), " that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 páginas
...fits of capricious legislators, (g) In entering upon this task, the first thing which strikes one, is this " 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 without benefit of clergy... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1811 - 248 páginas
...has attached the punishment of death. " It is a melan" choly truth," says Mr. Justice Blackstone, " 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 páginas
...has attached the punishment of death. " It is a melan" choly truth," says Mr. Justice Blackstone, " 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... | |
 | 1813 - 716 páginas
...that of Draco of old, is written in letters of blood. " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone,* " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without... | |
 | John Craig - 1814 - 434 páginas
...Blackstone, " that among the variety c " 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."* The proper province of views of public utility is widely different from that which is frequently assigned... | |
 | 1814 - 698 páginas
...hand, and! injustice on the other. " It is a melancholy truth," says Sir William Blackstone, '•* 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 602 páginas
...multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. 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... | |
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