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... SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL COMMON LAW AND STATUTE LAW ; TREASON , FELONY , AND MISDEMEANOUR . ᏞᎪᎳ ; 187 LEADING LAW . CHAPTER XXI . POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL vi CONTENTS . CHAPTER XXII . OF PARTIES TO THE 197.
... SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL COMMON LAW AND STATUTE LAW ; TREASON , FELONY , AND MISDEMEANOUR . ᏞᎪᎳ ; 187 LEADING LAW . CHAPTER XXI . POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL vi CONTENTS . CHAPTER XXII . OF PARTIES TO THE 197.
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... statute against a prisoner of war , and therefore advised the jury to " acquit him of the circumstance of stealing ... statutes to be noticed im- mediately which enabled the king to issue commissions for the trial of murders and ...
... statute against a prisoner of war , and therefore advised the jury to " acquit him of the circumstance of stealing ... statutes to be noticed im- mediately which enabled the king to issue commissions for the trial of murders and ...
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... statute under which the commission which tried Depardo sat was considered to apply to the case of British subjects committing murder or manslaughter abroad on land , that the Canton river at eighty miles from the sea was regarded as ...
... statute under which the commission which tried Depardo sat was considered to apply to the case of British subjects committing murder or manslaughter abroad on land , that the Canton river at eighty miles from the sea was regarded as ...
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... statute . Suppose a man is commanded by statute to do something which he omits to do . Where is his offence committed ? Suppose no time to be specified at which the act was to have been done , at what place can it be said with propriety ...
... statute . Suppose a man is commanded by statute to do something which he omits to do . Where is his offence committed ? Suppose no time to be specified at which the act was to have been done , at what place can it be said with propriety ...
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... statutes , but in the latter year was passed the statute 28 Hen . 8 , c . 15 , which may be regarded as the foundation of our present law . It recites that persons committing crimes upon the sea often escaped punishment " because the ...
... statutes , but in the latter year was passed the statute 28 Hen . 8 , c . 15 , which may be regarded as the foundation of our present law . It recites that persons committing crimes upon the sea often escaped punishment " because the ...
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Side 158 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Side 343 - That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Side 69 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign State unless provision is made by the law of that State, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign State for any offence committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...
Side 225 - A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Side 300 - ... any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord, or slander may grow between the king and his people, or the great men of the realm ; and he that doth so, shall be taken and kept in prison, until he hath brought him into the court who was the first author of the tale.
Side 163 - To establish a defence on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.
Side 48 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction.
Side 120 - Knowledge that the act which causes death will probably cause the death of, or grievous bodily harm to, some person, whether such person is the person actually killed or not, although such knowledge is accompanied by indifference whether death or grievous bodily harm is caused or not, or by a wish that it may not be caused.
Side 158 - ... not, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act with which he is charged.
Side 149 - No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented [either by defective mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind ' (a) From knowing the nature and quality of his act, or ' (&) From knowing that the act is wrong [or ' (c) From controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own default].