Considerations on Criminal LawSaunders, 1772 - 434 Seiten |
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... objects of dread to men of depraved minds , are poverty , labour and confinement ; that these evils therefore , which they commit crimes to avoid , should be inflicted on them in proportion to their feveral degrees of delin- quency ...
... objects of dread to men of depraved minds , are poverty , labour and confinement ; that these evils therefore , which they commit crimes to avoid , should be inflicted on them in proportion to their feveral degrees of delin- quency ...
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... object of government . Even defpotism , which scarce deferves the name of govern ment , does not difavow this principle ; and when the arbitrary Will of Eastern tyrants is ftretched to a degree of oppreffion which their fubjects can no ...
... object of government . Even defpotism , which scarce deferves the name of govern ment , does not difavow this principle ; and when the arbitrary Will of Eastern tyrants is ftretched to a degree of oppreffion which their fubjects can no ...
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... object the example of nations which have lived by ra- pine , and practifed many barbarous customs repugnant to the precepts of Nature . The depravity of fuch as are impelled by paffion and appetite , will counteract and oblite- rate the ...
... object the example of nations which have lived by ra- pine , and practifed many barbarous customs repugnant to the precepts of Nature . The depravity of fuch as are impelled by paffion and appetite , will counteract and oblite- rate the ...
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... arrive to that state of maturity in which the paffions grow ftrong , and the objects of defire multiply , then appetite gradually corrupts , and often effaces Grotius , in his Prolegomena , fpeaks fo highly of CRIMINAL LAW . 59.
... arrive to that state of maturity in which the paffions grow ftrong , and the objects of defire multiply , then appetite gradually corrupts , and often effaces Grotius , in his Prolegomena , fpeaks fo highly of CRIMINAL LAW . 59.
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... objects , That it ftill remains obfcure what . thofe actions are which are in themselves unlaw- ful , and by what tokens they may be dif tinguished from others . - And again , That no actions are in themselves obligatory or unlawful ...
... objects , That it ftill remains obfcure what . thofe actions are which are in themselves unlaw- ful , and by what tokens they may be dif tinguished from others . - And again , That no actions are in themselves obligatory or unlawful ...
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Seite 9 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 254 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Seite 132 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately, and not the fact by itself ; so as though they answer not singly to the question what is the law, yet they determine the law in all matters, where issue is joined and tried in the principal Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ. case, but [ie except] where the verdict is special.
Seite 223 - I am one, , Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have fo incens'd, that I am recklefs what I do, to fpite the world. 1 Mur. And I another, So weary with difafters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would fet my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't.
Seite xxiv - ... What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Seite 46 - For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Seite 291 - If a man counterfeit the King's money; and if a man bring false money into the realm counterfeit to the money of England, knowing the money to be false, to merchandise and make payment withal.
Seite 417 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Seite xxix - ... happily force their way to the thrones of princes be it known to them, that they come attended with the...
Seite 134 - L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs.