The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 7Saunders and Benning, 1832 - Law |
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... passed , the punish- ment intended to be actually inflicted is assigned . On what ground this new fiction of law was ... passing indiscriminately sentence of death in all capital offences , and the useless pain which it inflicts a pain ...
... passed , the punish- ment intended to be actually inflicted is assigned . On what ground this new fiction of law was ... passing indiscriminately sentence of death in all capital offences , and the useless pain which it inflicts a pain ...
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... passing sentence of death where there is no intention of carrying it into effect . For surely all persons who have considered how awful and how painful a duty it is to dispose of the life of a man brought to the bar of a court to be ...
... passing sentence of death where there is no intention of carrying it into effect . For surely all persons who have considered how awful and how painful a duty it is to dispose of the life of a man brought to the bar of a court to be ...
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... passed upon him . But whilst some allowance must be made for this exaggeration of the returned convict , the story he has to tell is , when true , a very favourable one in the estimation of these people : he states such facts , as that ...
... passed upon him . But whilst some allowance must be made for this exaggeration of the returned convict , the story he has to tell is , when true , a very favourable one in the estimation of these people : he states such facts , as that ...
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... passed in a state of total idleness , the ship lands its cargo at New South Wales . He will then probably , not being a mechanic , find himself assigned to a farmer in the interior , where the lightness of the labour , the abundance of ...
... passed in a state of total idleness , the ship lands its cargo at New South Wales . He will then probably , not being a mechanic , find himself assigned to a farmer in the interior , where the lightness of the labour , the abundance of ...
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... passing a short time in the hulks . So long as a rule has exceptions , the mind fastens on the exceptions , and not on the rule . A rule with many exceptions is , in penal jurispru- dence , little better than no rule at all . If ...
... passing a short time in the hulks . So long as a rule has exceptions , the mind fastens on the exceptions , and not on the rule . A rule with many exceptions is , in penal jurispru- dence , little better than no rule at all . If ...
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Page 115 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 491 - An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively...
Page 491 - Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirtysix ; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates.
Page 177 - N., to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 46 - And it has been held, that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though they are not to be threatened or imprisoned, (m) the judges are not bound to wait for them, but may carry them round the circuit from town to town in a cart.
Page 227 - An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the fifteenth and .sixteenth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act to prevent and punish tumultuous Risings o/Per' sons within this Kingdom, and for other purposes therein mentioned...
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Page 86 - AFTER a long and not inattentive observation of mankind, the generosity of your Lordship's offer raises in me not less wonder than gratitude. Bounty, so liberally bestowed, I should gladly receive, if my condition made it necessary ; for, to such a mind, who would not be proud to own his obligations? But it has pleased GOD to restore me to so great a measure of health, that if I should now appropriate so much of a fortune destined to do good, I could not escape from myself the charge of advancing...
Page 262 - AN ANALYTICAL DIGEST of the Reports of Cases decided in the Courts of Common Law and Equity, of Appeal and Nisi Prius, and in the Ecclesiastical Courts, in the year 1851.
Page 227 - An act how lands, tenements, etc., may be disposed by will or otherwise and concerning wards and primer seisins; and also so much of an act passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries...