Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar, Volume 1Callaghan & Company, 1876 - 592 pages |
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Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar, Volume 1 Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine Affichage du livre entier - 1876 |
Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar, Volume 1 Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine Affichage du livre entier - 1876 |
Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar, Volume 1 Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine Affichage du livre entier - 1876 |
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Page 481 - 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 inflicted. "That jurors ought to be duly
Page 482 - returned; and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void. " And that for the redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.
Page 482 - liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient, and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed, and taken to be; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said
Page 482 - gentlemen, this Bill goes on to say, "For the ratifying, confirming, and establishing the said declaration, and the articles, clauses, matters, and things therein contained, by the force of a law made in due form, by authority of Parliament, do pray it may be declared and enacted, that all and singular the rights
Page 568 - they were from whom ye have freed us. That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts now more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us. Give me tlie liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,
Page 449 - by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information. " II. Provided always, that on every such trial, the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall he tried, shall, according to their or his
Page 449 - to try the issue, may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge, before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant
Page 407 - To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for