...statutory enactments. I have already l quoted the well-known passage in which Blackstone laments " that among the variety of actions " which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hun" died and sixty are declared by Act of Parliament to be i Cam. iv. 18. 2 1 6 BENTHAM. CH. XXf....

...being studied not only without disgust but with interest and profit." He lamented, as well he might, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 1GO are declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies worthy of instant death. The next era in criminal...

...truth that among the variety of actions which men are 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 instant death." Goldsmith has written admirably on this subject...

...among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an 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 instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...

...fixed upon the offender by slitting his nostrils or branding in the hand or cheek.2 Blackstone laments that, among the variety of actions which men are daily...less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of death.3 The most objectionable and really...

...commentaries, published in 1765, contain the almost incredible statement that a hundred and sixty crimes had been declared " by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death "; and for the great body of minor offences the...

...commentaries, published in 1Y65, contain the almost incredible statement that a hundred and sixty crimes had been declared " by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death "; and for the great body of minor offences the...

...Blackstone, who loved to extol the Biackstonc. humanity of the laws of England. He pointed out in 17G9 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."*...

...among the variety of acts which men were daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty had been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death ; and he remarks that " so dreadful a list, instead...

...fixed upon the offender by slitting his nostrils or branding in the hand or cheek.2 Blackstone laments that, among the variety of actions which men are daily...less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of death.3 The most objectionable and really...