A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings, and Evidence, which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information : with a Copious Collection of Precedents ...

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Edward Earle, 1819

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Page 459 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 81 - King there being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 85 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 286 - II. c. 11. that in every indictment and information for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom the oath was taken, (averring such court, or person or persons to have a competent authority to administer the same...
Page 389 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 413 - ... and corruptly say, depose, and swear (amongst other things) in substance and to the effect following, that is to say...
Page 478 - Parliament,' it was enacted, that no person or persons should solicit, labour, or procure, the getting of hands, or other consent, of any persons above the number of twenty or more, to any petition, complaint, remonstrance, declaration, or other address, to the King, or both or either Houses of Parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in Church or State...
Page 60 - King at the request of the Lords and Commons hath made a declaration in the manner as hereafter followeth : that is to say (amongst other things) if a man do levy war against our Lord the King in his realm or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere " then (I depart from the text and use modern terms) he shall be guilty of treason.
Page 167 - Two of the Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King...
Page 56 - ... if a man do violate the king's companion, or the king's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife or the king's eldest son and heir, or if a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm...

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