Atrocious Judges: Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of OppressionMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - Počet stran: 432 |
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... had become hereditary , to the officer who still continued to be elected by the people for the official functions originally discharged by the earl . civil and criminal jurisdiction , and cognizance also of ecclesi- 10 INTRODUCTION .
... had become hereditary , to the officer who still continued to be elected by the people for the official functions originally discharged by the earl . civil and criminal jurisdiction , and cognizance also of ecclesi- 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... jurisdiction , and cognizance also of ecclesi- astical causes , which were entitled to precedence over every other business . There was besides a shire or county court ( shir - gemot ) held twice every year , or oftener if occasion ...
... jurisdiction , and cognizance also of ecclesi- astical causes , which were entitled to precedence over every other business . There was besides a shire or county court ( shir - gemot ) held twice every year , or oftener if occasion ...
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... jurisdictions . The bishops , according to a fashion recently introduced on the continent , were au- thorized to hold ... jurisdiction which they still retain in England , and which , though we never had any ecclesiastical courts in the ...
... jurisdictions . The bishops , according to a fashion recently introduced on the continent , were au- thorized to hold ... jurisdiction which they still retain in England , and which , though we never had any ecclesiastical courts in the ...
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... jurisdiction in criminal cases was restricted to small matters , and even as to questions of prop- erty was limited to cases in which the amount in dispute did not exceed forty shillings ; though , considering the superior weight of the ...
... jurisdiction in criminal cases was restricted to small matters , and even as to questions of prop- erty was limited to cases in which the amount in dispute did not exceed forty shillings ; though , considering the superior weight of the ...
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... jurisdiction of the court formi- dable to all the subjects ; but the turn which judicial trials took soon after the conquest served still more to increase its authority , and to augment the royal prerogatives . William , among the other ...
... jurisdiction of the court formi- dable to all the subjects ; but the turn which judicial trials took soon after the conquest served still more to increase its authority , and to augment the royal prerogatives . William , among the other ...
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Strana 77 - Lofty, and sour, to them that lov"d him not; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer: And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.
Strana 414 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs, not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Strana 314 - Lisle, be conveyed from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where your body is to be burnt alive till you be dead And the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Strana 421 - That the power of the several courts of the United States to issue attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempts of court, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of the said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice...
Strana 415 - States, in addition to the authority already conferred by law, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases of a prisoner or prisoners, in jail or confinement, where he or they shall be committed or confined on, or by any authority or law, for any act done, or omitted to be done, in pursuance of a law of the United States...
Strana 298 - CHAPTER C. CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR JEFFREYS TILL HE RECEIVED THE GREAT SEAL. THE new Chief Justice was sworn in on the 29th of September, 1683, and took his seat in the Court of King's Bench on the first day of the following Michaelmas term...
Strana 308 - Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark on you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villain. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but longwinded cant without book...
Strana 300 - These great men spent the rest of the afternoon, till eleven at night, in drinking healths, taking tobacco, and talking much beneath the gravity of Judges, who had but a day or two before condemned Mr. Algernon Sidney...
Strana 126 - VI. and queen Elizabeth ; but yet was the occasion of heavy murmurs when exerted by Charles I.; among whose many misfortunes it was, that neither himself nor his people seemed able to distinguish between the arbitrary stretch, and the legal exertion, of prerogative.
Strana 325 - Whatever I did then I did by express orders ; and I have this farther to say for myself, that I was not half bloody enough for him who sent me thither.