A Sketch of English Legal HistoryPutnam, 1915 - 229 páginas |
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Página 177 - judge may allow the jury at any time the use of a fire, and they may, at their own expense, have reasonable refreshment, so that Pope's lines are no longer applicable: 'The hungry judges soon the sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Página 208 - 39. NO FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANYWAYS DESTROYED; NOR WILL WE GO UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS,
Página 136 - When the benefit of the King's equity was once a matter of right, it was inevitable that the rules of equity should become as methodical as any other part of the law. Blackstone could already say with truth that 'the system of our courts of equity is a laboured connected system, governed by established rules and bound down by
Página 211 - part of the common law. The judgment itself, and all proceedings previous thereto, are carefully registered and preserved, under the name of records, in public repositories set apart for that particular purpose; and to them frequent recourse is had, when any critical question arises, in the determination of which former precedents may give light or assistance.
Página 206 - 20. A freeman shall only be amerced, for a small offence after the manner of the offence, for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; and, after the same manner, a
Página 194 - bot"; and let the king have the "wite" and all the chattels. 10. If a man lie with the king's maiden, let him pay a "bot" of L. shillings. 11. If she be a grinding slave, let him pay a "bot" of xxv. shillings. The third [class]
Página 208 - DESTROYED; NOR WILL WE GO UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS,
Página 53 - The use of a jury, both for criminal presentment and civil inquest, is mentioned for the first time in our statute law in the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164). The way in which the jury is therein referred to seems to imply that it had already gone into general use and
Página 207 - 42. In future anyone may leave the kingdom and return at will, unless in time of war, when he may be restrained "for some short space for the common good of the kingdom." Prisoners, outlaws, and alien enemies are excepted, and foreign merchants shall be dealt with as provided in the 4ist clause.