 | Richard Thomson - Great Britain - 1828 - 372 pages
...and jurors who pass upon men in trials for high-treason should be freeholders ; that all grants or promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void ; and that, for redress of grievances, amending, strengthening, and preserving the laws, Parliaments... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...to be imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted ; and the same statute further declares, 2 ݅ 9J2; /` $ ]2 O5 Z% =4 |09 m a %H- J 5 Wd z;9 &֏& **D Now the Bill of Rights was only declaratory, of the old constitutional law ; and accordingly we find... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 794 pages
...to be imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons Ivfore conviction, are illegal and void. Now the Hill of Ri'jhts was only declaratory, of the old constitutional... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 418 pages
...and returned ; and jurors, which pass upon men in trials of high treason, ought to be freeholders : that all grants and promises of fines, and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void : and that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the... | |
 | Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1835 - 466 pages
...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....promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons are illegal and void. " 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening,... | |
 | Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1835 - 468 pages
...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. " 12. That all grants and promises of fines and THE LORDS AND COMMONS. 383 forfeitures of particular persons are illegal and void. " 13. And that for... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 1835 - 792 pages
...inflicted : — tl. That jurors ought to be duly empannelli'd and returned ; and that jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason, ought to be free-holders : — 12. That all grants and promises of fines end forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void : — 13. And that for... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...to be imposed, nor cruel, nor unusual punishments inflicted ; and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and avoid. The sentence of death is the most terrible and highest judgment of the law of England, and when... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...ought to be duly impanneled 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 wrsons before conviction are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...court of King's Bench, in the reign of king James the second :) and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons, before conviction, are illegal and void. Now the bill of rights was only declaratory of the old constitutional law : and accordingly we find... | |
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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.... 
