A Postscript to the Letter, on Libels, Warrants, &c. in Answer to a Postcript in the Defence of the Majority ...J. Almon, 1765 - 16 من الصفحات |
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abearing act of parliament add the following Affertion affigned againſt alfo altho apprehenfion arreft becauſe behaviour blank warrant breach of privilege cafe caſe caufe cauſe cerns Chief Juftice commiffion common law confcience confervators Confiderer fays conftitution Council court criminal crown defire difcretion Edition exprefs fame fecurity feffions fenfe fhall fhew fhort fhould fingle firft flander fome act fome particular fpecial fubject fuch fufficient fufpected fuppofed furety Habeas Corpus haviour himſelf Houfe Houſe iffued impriſon inftance judge jurifdiction jury King King's Bench liberty likewife Lord Coke minifter moft moſt muft muſt oath occafion officer ordinances and ftatutes paffed Pages mentioned refer particular perfon party peace poffeffion prefent prefume prifon Privy Council Privy Counſellor procefs profecuting public libel puniſhed purpoſe Queſtion read the following reafons recognizance refolution refolved reign ribaldry Roger Mortimer ſhall Sir Edward Coke ſuch tend theſe thing thofe thoſe tranflated trefpafs trial unleſs words
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الصفحة 7 - ... in companies against our peace, in disturbance of our people, with armed force have gone or rode, or hereafter shall presume to go or ride; And also of all those who have there lain in wait, or hereafter shall presume to lie in wait, to maim or cut or kill our people...
الصفحة 5 - Nay, binding to the behaviour, ufed always to be done in open feffions; and the beft opinions now are, that a juftice acts illegally, if he bind any man to his behaviour for any longer time than untill the next feffions of the peace. My Lord Hale fays,
الصفحة 7 - ABCD etc. we will shall be one) our justices to inquire the truth more fully, by the oath of good and lawful men of the aforesaid county, by whom the truth of the matter shall be...
الصفحة 12 - Bench, endeavour to b!;ift the repute of Juries with mankind, by pronouncing that the trial by jury would be the very worft of all, were it not for the controuling power of judges, by the award of new trials and the reconfideration of verdicts, and that, indeed, it could...
الصفحة 8 - ... a fervant may demand it for himfelf in his own perfon like any other man: and it is never to be awarded by any magiftrate but upon credible oath, or upon his own view, of a fufficient caufe. My Lord Coke fays exprefly, that " flanderous words are not " a breach of the behaviour, for tho...
الصفحة 7 - And to cause to come before you, or any of you, all those who to any one or more of our people concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses have used threats, to find sufficient security for the peace, or their good behaviour, towards us and our people ; and if they shall refuse to find such security, then them in our prisons until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept.
الصفحة 9 - LerdflorieSy and for breaking and entering the fquirc's dtfe and chafing and vexing his cattle, and for calling him afterwards a drunken knave. That the indictment was removed afterwards into the King's-Bench, and there it Was debated divers times both at the bar and the bench ; whether, admitting all that is contained in the indictment to be true, any thing therein was in judgment of law a breach of the faid recognizance. And that it was refolved " neither any of the words, nor the trefpafs were...
الصفحة 1 - ... propofitions, what Was either affirmed or denied, touching any of the articles themfelves. Indeed, I could never determine whether he had, ' or had not, a good conception of our foreign interefts, altho' I am perfuaded he had a thorough one of all the domeflic connections among us.
الصفحة 1 - The notion of purfuing a libeller in a criminal way at all, is alien from the nature of a free conftitution. Our ancient common law knew of none but a civil remedy, by fpecial action on the cafe for damages incurred, to be aflefled by a jury of his fellows.
الصفحة 9 - Lordßories, and for breaking and entering the fquire' s flefe and chafing and vexing his cattle, and for calling him afterwards a drunken knave. That the indictment was removed afterwards into the King's-Bench, and there it was debated divers times both at the bar and the bench ; whether, admitting all that is contained in the indictment to be true, any thing therein was in judgment of law a breach of the faid recognizance. And that it was refolved " neither any of the words, nor the trefpafs were...