 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3261821Full view - About this book
 | 1814 - 698 pages
...hand, and! injustice on the other. " It is a melancholy truth," says Sir William Blackstone, '•* that 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 without benefit of clergy... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 602 pages
...capital punishment to be found therein, inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in...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... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...the year 1765, speaking of the Criminal Law of England, lamenting »ays : " It is a melancholy tmtli, 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 bcneßt of Clergy... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...capital punishment to be found therein ; inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in...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 death. So... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 pages
...capital punishment to be found therein ; inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in...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 death. So... | |
 | 1830 - 446 pages
...acknowledge ourselves much indebted. 'It is a melancholy truth,' said Sir William Blackstone, in 1765, 'that 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 without benefit of clergy... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 pages
...will be generally led to conclude, that 'there is no distinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...of the more atrocious crimes. It is a melancholy truth, Sir vVilliam Blackstone observes m his time, 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 without benefit of clergy; or, in other... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...fact,' says Blackstone, whose testimony on this subject will be regarded of the highest authority, 'that among the variety of actions, which men are...less than an hundred and sixty have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1832 - 930 pages
...and kept, than laws made with extreme punishments." " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone, " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixly have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies worthy of instant death. So dreadful a... | |
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