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Strana 81 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Strana 90 - ... an attempt to commit the same, and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for attempting to commit the particular felony or misdemeanor charged in the said indictment; and no person so tried as herein lastly mentioned shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for an attempt to commit the felony or misdemeanor for which he was so tried.
Strana 304 - For the purpose of giving jurisdiction under this Act, every offence shall be deemed to have been committed...
Strana 89 - ... such person shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return aa their verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanor charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same...
Strana 196 - We shall probably be safe in laying it down that the law will permit a compromise of all offences, though made the subject of a criminal prosecution, for which offences the injured party might sue and recover damages in an action. It is often the only manner in which he can obtain redress. But, if the offence is of a public nature, no agreement can be valid that is founded on the consideration of stifling a prosecution for it.
Strana 153 - ... otherwise, leaving him at liberty to stay where he is or to go in any other direction if he pleases, he can be said thereby to imprison him. He does him wrong, undoubtedly, if there was a right to pass in that direction, and would be liable to an action on the case for obstructing the passage, or of assault, if, on the party persisting in going in that direction, he touched his person, or so threatened him as to amount to an assault. But imprisonment is, as I apprehend, a total restraint of the...
Strana 13 - ... of the public, because it is a general rule that where the public are to be charged with a burden the intention of the legislature to impose that burden must be explicitly and distinctly shown.
Strana 261 - ... by any breach of the peace in the one case, or any misbehaviour in the other, the recognizance becomes forfeited or absolute ; and being estreated or extracted (taken out from among the other records) and sent up to the exchequer, the party and his sureties, having now become the king's absolute debtors, are sued for the several sums in which they are respectively bound.
Strana 148 - It is unnecessary for the purposes of this case to decide whether under the Ordinance a week's previous notice does not absolutely put an end to the contract.
Strana 321 - Officers, according to the Laws and Institutions that subsisted under the ancient Government of the United Provinces...