The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 36Butterworths, 1851 - Law |
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Page 61
... jury in the courts of assize or quarter sessions is satisfactory , and that justice is , in the main , effected ... juries err in their verdicts it is most commonly on the side of the party accused . It is rare , indeed , that a person ...
... jury in the courts of assize or quarter sessions is satisfactory , and that justice is , in the main , effected ... juries err in their verdicts it is most commonly on the side of the party accused . It is rare , indeed , that a person ...
Page 70
... jury is satisfied of an intention to commit any felony whatever , whether in a building or otherwise . Lastly , it is an offence- " If any person shall be found at night in any dwellinghouse or other building whatsoever , with intent to ...
... jury is satisfied of an intention to commit any felony whatever , whether in a building or otherwise . Lastly , it is an offence- " If any person shall be found at night in any dwellinghouse or other building whatsoever , with intent to ...
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... jury shall not be charged to inquire of any previous conviction under this act or the 12 Vict . c . 11 ( which abolished transportation for simple larceny ) , until the prisoner shall have been found guilty of the subsequent offence ...
... jury shall not be charged to inquire of any previous conviction under this act or the 12 Vict . c . 11 ( which abolished transportation for simple larceny ) , until the prisoner shall have been found guilty of the subsequent offence ...
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... jury of an intention existing in the mind of the prisoner to inflict an injury of one of the three classes there specified . Frequently , therefore , where the par- ties concerned had been engaged in a half - drunken squabble in a pot ...
... jury of an intention existing in the mind of the prisoner to inflict an injury of one of the three classes there specified . Frequently , therefore , where the par- ties concerned had been engaged in a half - drunken squabble in a pot ...
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... jury may draw in cases of personal violence , by negativing a felonious intention , it is further provided , by section 5 , that " If upon the trial of any indictment for any felony ( except murder or manslaughter ) , where the ...
... jury may draw in cases of personal violence , by negativing a felonious intention , it is further provided , by section 5 , that " If upon the trial of any indictment for any felony ( except murder or manslaughter ) , where the ...
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Page 219 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts that, " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence...
Page 75 - Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his...
Page 230 - ... and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for...
Page 224 - All Proclamations, Treaties, and other Acts of State of any foreign State or of any British colony, and all judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any court of justice in any foreign State or in any British colony, and all affidavits, pleadings, and other legal documents filed or deposited in any such court...
Page 165 - ... first, the mode of annexation to the soil or fabric of the house, and the extent to which it is united to them, whether it...
Page 72 - Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily Harm upon any other Person, either with or without any Weapon or Instrument...
Page 217 - ... any party to any suit, action, or proceeding individually named in the record, or any lessor of the plaintiff, or tenant of premises sought to...
Page 238 - In any Plea of autrefois convict or autrefois acquit, it shall be sufficient for any Defendant to state that he has been lawfully convicted or acquitted (as the Case may be) of the said Offence charged in the Indictment.
Page 42 - ... to which the first occupant may acquire an exclusive right, but that it is public and common in this sense only, that all may reasonably use it who have a right of access to it, that none can have any property in the water itself except in the particular portion which he may choose to abstract from the stream and take into his possession, and that during the time of his possession only. But each proprietor of the adjacent land has the right to the usufruct of the stream which flows through it.
Page 239 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...