 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1856 - 404 pages
...promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the...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, as their... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 pages
...criminal jurisprudence. It stands as a constitutional article in the Bill of Rights, that " all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of 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... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1857 - 440 pages
...freedom of speech in, parliament ; the due impanelment and return of jurors; and frequent parliaments, " for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws." The Lords and Commons " claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1857 - 370 pages
...Charles II., illustrates the importance of that clause of the Bill of Rights " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of 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... | |
 | Armand Carrel - 1857 - 660 pages
...jurors which pass upon men in trials of high treason, ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 556 pages
...consent no taxes could be levied, and no standing army maintained — a Parliament frequently meeting, " for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the Laws." Upon Parliamentary Bepresentation was the Bevolution based. It is for this reason, especially, that... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 304 pages
...of the prosecutor, by which a hostile verdict was ensured, right or wrong. 10. " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular 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 - 1858 - 718 pages
...the crown sitting in parliament (see as to this, sup. p. 372). (x) Plowd. 55. 12. That all grants and promises 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 the... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 pages
...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, are illegal and void. " 13. That for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the... | |
 | Albany de Grenier Fonblanque - 1859 - 232 pages
...FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. That, for redress of all grievances, and for the amending,...strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliaments ought to be held frequently. No mention of the freedom of the press is made in this celebrated declaration.... | |
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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. 
