 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament^) to be felonies...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. *The injured, through... | |
 | Law - 1064 pages
...punishment. ANS. — At the period referred to about 160 actions, which men were daily liable to commit, were declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or in other words, worthy of instant death (4 Steph. Com. 93, n., 4th ed.). Eleven only of these crimes are now liable... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 770 pages
...truth that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable " to commit, no less than 160 have " been declared by act of parliament " to be...or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death. So dread" ful a list, instead of diminishing, " increases the number of offenders. " The injured, through... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 pages
...among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of Parliament, to, be felonies...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list," adds the learned jurist, " instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders."... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1863 - 540 pages
...which men are daily liable " to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of par" liament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other " words, to be worthy of instant death." * The confusion in the secondary punishments is well described by the Criminal Law Commissioners :... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 554 pages
...among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death " (p. 73). Of course, in practice the capital sentence was not always carried out. The judge "selected... | |
 | Lord Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie - Comparative law - 1865 - 448 pages
...melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...among tho variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament^) to be felonies...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. *The injured, through... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 810 pages
...daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament (b) to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant deathj(19). So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. 'The injured... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - History - 1872 - 324 pages
...among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." — Black&tone, IV, 19. * Cal. PC, 154, 165 ; New York PC, 212, 213. t Const, of Cal., Art. I, Sec.... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
