A Letter Concerning Libels, Warrants, the Seizure of Papers, and Sureties for the Peace Or Behaviour: With a View to Some Late Proceedings, and the Defence of Them by the MajorityJ. Almon, 1765 - 112페이지 |
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85 페이지 - That the proceedings of the Lord Chief Justice, in the cases now reported, are innovations in the trial of men for their lives and liberties; and that he hath used an arbitrary and illegal power, which is of dangerous consequence to the lives and liberties of the people of England, and tends to the introducing of an arbitrary government. 2. That in the place of judicature, the Lord Chief Justice hath undervalued, vilified, and condemned Magna Charta, the great preserver of our lives, freedom, and...
23 페이지 - That in every County of England shall be assigned for the keeping of the Peace, one Lord, and with him three or four of the most worthy in the County, with some learned in the Law...
26 페이지 - And to cause to come before you, or any of you, all those who to any one or more of our people concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses have used threats, to find sufficient security for the peace, or their good behaviour, towards us and our people ; and if they shall refuse to find such security, then them in our prisons until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept.
33 페이지 - ... propofitions, what Was either affirmed or denied, touching any of the articles themfelves. Indeed, I could never determine whether he had, ' or had not, a good conception of our foreign interefts, altho' I am perfuaded he had a thorough one of all the domeflic connections among us.
16 페이지 - Orders, declares generally, That no Lord of Parliament, fitting the Parliament, or within the ufual Times of Privilege of Parliament, is to be imprifoned or reftrained without Sentence or Order of the Houfe, unlefs it be for Treafon or Felony, or for refufing to give Security for the Peace, and Refufal to pay Obedience to a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
61 페이지 - Corpus, and sometimes more, and by other shifts to avoid their yielding obedience to such writs, contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land, whereby many of the king's subjects have been and hereafter may be long detained in prison, in such cases where by law they are bailable, to their great charges and vexation: II.
74 페이지 - Topham, at the siiit of John Jay, to the jurisdiction of that Court; and also the judgments given against the said Mr. Topham, at the suit of Samuel Verdun, &c. are illegal, and a violation of the privileges of Parliament, and pernicious to the rights of Parliament.
11 페이지 - Whether any act was done or any word *' fpoken, in fuch or fuch a manner, or with fuch or fuch "an intent, the Jurors are Judges. The Court is not " Judge of thcfe matters, which are evidence to prove or " difprove the thing in iflue." This is our law, both in civil and criminal trials, altho...
87 페이지 - That the warrants * iffued by the King's Bench are " arbitrary and illegal. And it was ordered, That the " faid report, and the feveral refolutions of the Houfe " thereupon, be printed ; and that Mr. Speaker take care " in the printing thereof apart from this day's other votes." Thus did the Commons behave in the cafe of two Chief Juftices of the King's Bench, and their conduct is fo decifive upon the point we now are, that no words can add to the force of it. But there was another thing, which was...
13 페이지 - Things as you are charged with, it lies upon you to prove them true, at your Peril. If you have any Witneffes, I will hear them.