This takes in the case of deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder : thinking it their duty as gentlemen, and claiming it as their right, to wanton with their own lives and those of their fellow-creatures; without... A Compendium and Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts - Page 463by Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1810Full view - About this book
| James Burgh - Great Britain - 1775 - 540 pages
...MEM. 662. c STAT. AT LARGE, nil. l3i. • In deliberate duelling, fays the admirable ElackJlone a, both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder...as their right, to wanton with their own lives, and thofe of their fellow-creatures, without any warrant or authority from any power, either divine or... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...concerted fchemes to do him fome bodily harm f. This takes in the cafe of deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder...as their right, to wanton with their own lives and thofe of their fellow creatures ; without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...concerted fchemes to do him fome bodily harm r. This takes in the cafe of deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder...their duty, as gentlemen, and claiming it as their tlghti to wanton with their own lives and thofe of their Iellow creatures ; without any warrant or... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 774 pages
...concerted fehcmes to do him fome bodily harm. This takes in the cafe of deliberate tlue-Jling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder:...as their right, to wanton with their own lives and thofe of their fellowcreatures ; without any warrant or authority fr°m any power cither divine or... | |
| Gilbert Hutcheson - Constables - 1806 - 824 pages
...avowedMNG. «« \j with an intent to murder. This takes in the cafe of " deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly " with an intent to murder, thinking it their duty as geu" tlemen, and claiming it as their right to wanton with their " own lives, and thofe of their fellow-creatures... | |
| Thomas Oliver Selfridge - Murder - 1807 - 182 pages
...concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm. This takes in the case of deliberately duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder...human, but in direct contradiction to the laws both of Ged and man : and therefore the law has justly fixed the crime ai>d punishment of murder on them and... | |
| George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 350 pages
...parties meet " avowedly with an intent to murder; think" ing it their duty as gentlemen, and claim" ing it as their right, to wanton with their " own lives...authority from any " power either divine or human, but in di" rect contradiction to the laws both of God " and man ; and therefore the law has justly " fixed... | |
| 1815 - 930 pages
...essential to the crime of murder, observes, " this takes in the case of deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder...without any warrant or authority from any power either dnine or human, but in direct contradiction to the laws of God and man ,• and therefore the law has... | |
| Thomas Potts - Law - 1815 - 836 pages
...comes within the notion of murder, as being committed by malice afore thought ; where the fiartiee meet with an intent to murder, thinking it their duty as gentlemen, and claiming it at their right, lo wiiuton un h their own lives, and the lives of others, without uny warrant for it... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 774 pages
...the cafe of deliberate duelling, where both parties meet avowedly with an intent to murder: Blinking it their duty, as gentlemen, and claiming it as their right, to wanton with their own lives and thole of their fellowcreatures ; without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or human,... | |
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