 | Andrew Amos - Constitutional history - 1857 - 340 pages
...occurring in the reign of Charles II., illustrates the importance of that clause of the Bill of Rights " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." Sir John Reresby relates, in his Memoirs, that a foolish and scandalous report had got abroad, that... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - Great Britain - 1857 - 440 pages
...punishments ; also the erection of the Ecclesiastical Commission, or any similar court ; it declares grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, void ; claims the right of keeping arms for Protestants ; free election to, and freedom of speech in,... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1858 - 304 pages
...retainers and servants of the prosecutor, by which a hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons before conviction, are illegal and void." This put an end to the bestowal of the spoils of a person under trial on some favourite of the king,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858 - 718 pages
...fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. [This provision respecting the qualification of jurors in cases of treason is repealed by the Jury... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...imposed ; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. " 11. That jurors ought to be duly empanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. " 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1858 - 420 pages
...ancient enactment, however [2 Stephois' JYew Commentaries, Edw. III. c. 3], against going vol. ip 140. and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction,... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1859 - 644 pages
...and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason, ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons before conviction, are illegal and void. And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises, as their undoubted rights and... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...this influence of the crown over the sheriff's by declaring that " juries ought to be duly empanelled and returned ; and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders."1 The persons qualified to be jurors, and the mode of their selection, were placed under... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 820 pages
...JKI?J» np»n men in trials for high treason ought to bo freehold ere. 12. That all grants and promise? of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. 13. And that, for redress of all grievances and for the amending, strengthening;, and preserving of... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Great Britain - 1860 - 422 pages
...fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted ; That juries ought to be duly empannelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void ; That for the redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the... | |
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That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;... 
