 | 1854 - 642 pages
...the most. And by the 1 W. and M. st. 2. c. 2, it is declared to be one of the rights of the People, that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving the laws. Parliaments ought to be held frequently ; and this indefinite frequency is again reduced... | |
 | James White - 1855 - 308 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,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1856 - 384 pages
...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...strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently. And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises,... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 pages
...important matter of criminal jurisprudence. It stands as a constitutional article in the Bill of Rights, that " all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void." An illustration of the usage in this respect that had prevailed occurs in Reresby's memoirs: — On... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 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 - 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,... | |
 | Geoffrey Wilson - 1976 - 842 pages
...cruell and unusuall punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned . . . That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. And that for redresse of all grievances and for the amending strengthening and preserveing of the lawes... | |
 | Stuart E. Prall - 1985 - 372 pages
...upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of Cnes and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction...strengthening and preserving of the laws, parliaments ought to be frequently held. And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premisses,... | |
 | J. R. Broome - 1988 - 62 pages
...returned, and that jurors which pass upon men in trials of high treason ought to be freeholders. (1) That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures...persons, before conviction, are illegal and void, (m) And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, and strengthening, and preserving... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1312 pages
...upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fine and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction...strengthening and preserving of the laws, parliaments ought to be held frequently. And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises,... | |
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And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently. 
