A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time, Volumen3

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Página 435 - 4thly. To levy such war, in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe both, or either houses of parliament ; or Sthly. To move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade this realm, or any other of his majesty's dominions or countries, and in the obeisance of his majesty, his
Página 433 - when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir, or if a man do violate the
Página 443 - the bill of rights, which declared, "that it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and that all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning were illegal;
Página 442 - assembled together to the disturbance of the public peace, and being required or commanded by any one or more justice or justices of the peace, or by the sheriff of the county or his undersheriff, or by the mayor, bailiff, or
Página 270 - or defendant, who is called upon to make satisfaction for it; and the judex, or judicial power, which is to examine the truth of the fact, to determine the law arising upon that fact, and if any injury appears to have been done, to ascertain, and by its officers to apply the remedy. 3 Bl. Com. 25.
Página 451 - the articles of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge, who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them in the name of the king, but at the suit of any private prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : the
Página 429 - But this must be an ignorance or mistake of fact, and not an error in point of law. As if a man, intending to kill a thief or housebreaker in his own house, by mistake kills one of his own family, this is no criminal action, Cro. Car.
Página 442 - The Riot Act," it is enacted, that if any persons to the number of twelve, or more, being unlawfully, riotously, and tumultously assembled together to the disturbance of the public peace, and being required or commanded by any
Página 136 - no man that is innocent, or free from injury or wrong, be by a literal construction punished or endamaged : and therefore, in this case, albeit the letter of the statute is generally to give damages against him that is found tenant, and the case that Littleton here
Página 240 - that are fed and commanded by their owner, and fish in a private pond or in trunks. These are no longer the property of a man, than while they continue in his keeping or actual possession; but if at any time they regain their natural liberty, his property instantly ceases; unless they have