...excluded from benefit of clergy or made capital by some subsequent act. Blackstone says (4 Com. 18) 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."...

...clergy. In the second edition of the Commentaries (4 Black. 18), published in 1769, Blackstone says 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." This passage...

...eapital punishment to be found therein ; inflieted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of sueeessive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melaneholy truth that among the variety of actions whieh men are daily liable to commit, no less than...

...covers every quarter of the eighteenth century, remarks that: It is a melancholy truth that, amongst 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 felonious without benefit of clergy...

...capital punishment to be found there in, 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;...

...judges and no one calls him a lunatic or anarchist. When he wrote, there were, quoting his own language, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or in other words to be worthy of...

...the second edition of his Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in 1769, Blackstone says: "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...

...century. In the second edition of the "Commentaries" published in 1769, Sir William Blackstone says that "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than 1 60 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The true explanation...

...century. In the second edition of the "Commentaries" published in 1769, Sir William Blackstone says 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." The true explanation...

...work, says : " In entering upon this task (says Romilly), the first thing which strikes one is the 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...