 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...in the court of King's Bench, in the reign of King James II.: and the same statute further declares, that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. The reasonableness of fines in criminal cases has also been usually regulated by the determination... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1866 - 264 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....13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliament ought to be held frequently. *******... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 526 pages
...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....13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliaments ought to be held frequently."... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...shall be void. And, by the bill of rights at the revolution,.! W. and M. st. 2, c. 2, it is declared that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction (which is here the inquest of office) are illegal and void ; which, indeed, was the law of the land... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly empanneled and returned ; and that jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason, ought to be freeholders....conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for the redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of laws, parliaments... | |
 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impaneled and returned, and Jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders....illegal and void. 13. And that, for redress of all grievance*, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliament ought to be... | |
 | Albany de Grenier Fonblanque - 1869 - 182 pages
...unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned ; and jurors who pass judgment upon men in trials for high treason,...persons, before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. That, for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws,... | |
 | England - 1869 - 182 pages
...and eruel and unusual punishments: (11,) the due empanelling and return of jurors: (12,) declaring all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, illegal and void: (13,) and that, for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening... | |
 | William Stubbs - Constitutional history - 1870 - 568 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....13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliament ought to be held frequently. And... | |
 | James Birchall - 1870 - 532 pages
...impanelled ami returned, and that jurors •which pass upon men in trials of high treason ought to he freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines...conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that, for the redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliaments... | |
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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.... 
