The Military Forces of the Crown: Their Administration and Government, Volume 2J. Murray, 1869 |
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Administration Appendix appointed arms Army Articles of War Artillery assistance Audit authority Board Board of Ordnance Bounty Chap Chaplains charge Civil Magistrate Civil Power Colonel Colonial Commander-in-Chief Commanding Officer Commissariat Commission Commissioners Committee Constitutional Corps Court Court-martial Crown declared Department direct discharge Duke duty employment enlistment established execution exercise expenditure Finance force given Government Guards half-pay Hist House of Commons issued Journ Justice King King's Letter Lord Lord Hardinge Lord Palmerston Majesty Majesty's Martial Law Master-General matters ment Military Officers Militia Mutiny Act opinion Ordnance paid Parish Parl Parliament Parliamentary Paymaster-General Peace pension persons present principle Public punishment purchase raised rank rebellion received Recruits Regiment Regulations reign Report riots Royal Sign Manual Royal Warrant rule sanction Secretary Secretary at War Soldier Sovereign Statute Stores suppression tary tion Treasury Troops War Office
Popular passages
Page 61 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike; nay, number itself in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, "It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.
Page 372 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 155 - ... such as justices of the peace, for acts done by them in the exercise of their civil duty ; there the principal inquiry to be made, by a court of justice, is, how the heart stood ? And if there appears to be nothing wrong there, great latitude will be allowed for misapprehension or mistake. But on the other hand, if the heart is wrong — if cruelty, malice, and oppression appear to have occasioned, or aggravated the imprisonment or other injury complained of — they shall not cover themselves...
Page 143 - And whilst I am stating the obligation imposed by the law on every subject of the realm, I wish to observe that the law acknowledges no distinction in this respect between the soldier and the private individual. The soldier is still a citizen, lying under the same obligation, and invested with the same authority to preserve the peace of the king as any other subject.
Page 293 - Prize is altogether a creature of the Crown. No man has, or can have any interest, but what he takes as the mere gift of the Crown; beyond the extent of that gift he has nothing. This is the principle of law on the subject, and founded on the wisest reasons. The right of making War and Peace is exclusively in the Crown. The acquisitions of War belong to the Crown, and the disposal of these acquisitions may be of the utmost importance for the purposes both of War and Peace.
Page 476 - Before a person can avail himself of the defence, that he used a weapon in defence of his life, he must satisfy the jury that that defence was necessary ; that he did all he could to avoid it ; and that it was necessary, to protect his own life, or to protect himself from such serious bodily harm, as would give him a reasonable apprehension that his life was in immediate danger.
Page 365 - Let judges also remember, that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides: let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne : being circumspect, that they do not check or oppose any points of sovereignty.
Page 757 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person shall be or be received as a lecturer, or permitted, suffered, or allowed to preach as a lecturer, or to preach or read any sermon or lecture in any church, chapel, or other place of public worship, within this realm of England, or the dominion of Wales and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, unless he be first approved and thereunto licensed by the archbishop of the province or bishop of the diocese...