 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 pages
...See the Parliamentary History of England, vol. v. anno 16O5. t See the Bill of Rights, Art. x. — " Excessive bail " ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed: " nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." kings, to make justice to be " executed with mercy."• CHAPTER... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. XXII. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted, by the courts of law. XXIII. That all warrants, without oath... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...freedom of,, speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament; that excessive...not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted , that jurors ought to be duly impanuelled arid returned, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 860 pages
...Freedom of Speech, and Debates, or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament : That Excessive...Bail ought not to be required, nor Excessive Fines irrfposed, nor cruel and unusual Punishments inflicted : That Jurors ought to be duly empannelled and... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...coin t or place out of parliament ; that excessive bail ou^bt not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; that jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in tiials for high treason, ou^bt to be freeholders;... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1809 - 646 pages
...sentence to be incompatible with the spirit of that provision of the bill of rights, which says, that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel arid unusual punishment* indicted. The learnrd countel concluded with expressing tm conviction... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...of speech, and debates or " proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be im" peached, or questioned, in any Court or place out " of Parliament." " That...to be required, " nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual " punishments inflicted." " That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and " returned... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...of speech, and debates or " proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be im" peached, or questioned, in any Court or place out " of Parliament." " That...to be required, " nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual " punishments inflicted." " That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and " returned... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...REQUIRING EXCESSIVE BAIL. By the declaration of rights of Virginia, article 9, it is declared, " That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel nor unusual punishments inflicted." The same principle is adopted in the amendments to the constitution... | |
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That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments... 
