A Letter concerning Libels, Warrants, the Seizure of Papers, and Sureties for the Peace or Behaviour ... The fourth edition, enlarged and improvedJ. Almon, 1765 - 112 Seiten |
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Seite 85 - That the proceedings of the Lord Chief Justice, in the cases now reported, are innovations in the trial of men for their lives and liberties; and that he hath used an arbitrary and illegal power, which is of dangerous consequence to the lives and liberties of the people of England, and tends to the introducing of an arbitrary government. 2. That in the place of judicature, the Lord Chief Justice hath undervalued, vilified, and condemned Magna Charta, the great preserver of our lives, freedom, and...
Seite 21 - England shall be assigned for the keeping of the Peace, one Lord, and with him three or four of the most worthy in the County, with some learned in the Law...
Seite 19 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.
Seite 54 - ... for that purpofe, it was our duty to deliver over to thofe, whofe office it is to collect the evidence, and manage the profecution againft you. We are Your humble fervants, EGREMONT. DUNK HALIFAX.
Seite 14 - Orders, declares generally, That no Lord of Parliament, fitting the Parliament, or within the ufual Times of Privilege of Parliament, is to be imprifoned or reftrained without Sentence or Order of the Houfe, unlefs it be for Treafon or Felony, or for refufing to give Security for the Peace, and Refufal to pay Obedience to a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Seite 61 - Corpus, and sometimes more, and by other shifts to avoid their yielding obedience to such writs, contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land, whereby many of the king's subjects have been and hereafter may be long detained in prison, in such cases where by law they are bailable, to their great charges and vexation: II.
Seite 21 - ... to take of all them that be not of good fame, where they shall be found, sufficient surety and mainprise of their good behaviour towards the King and his people...
Seite 34 - ... feem, to perpetuate, as much as might be, a fortune or family once made, by continuing, from generation to generation, a vaft power of property, and to facilitate at each defcent, the lumping of one great fum, or One great family, to another, by bargain and fale, in oppofition to the generous principles of equality and diffufive property, which free flates have always encouraged.
Seite 5 - ... to do, without the intervention of a jury. The faces of the fubject are fo ground by this proceeding, that every body at leng.th is alarmed, and the people in Struggling with the crown happening to get the better, the patriots of the time feized an occafion, towards the latter end of the reign of Charles the Firft, to extort from that martyr to obftinacy, an act for the abolition of this moft oppreffive jurifdiction.
Seite 11 - Things as you are charged with, it lies upon you to prove them true, at your Peril. If you have any Witneffes, I will hear them.